github chardet/chardet 5.0.0
chardet 5.0.0

latest releases: 5.2.0, 5.1.0
23 months ago

⚠️ This release is the first release of chardet that no longer supports Python < 3.6 ⚠️

In addition to that change, it features the following user-facing changes:

  • Added a prober for Johab Korean (#207, @grizlupo)
  • Added a prober for UTF-16/32 BE/LE (#109, #206, @jpz)
  • Added test data for Croatian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Slovak, Slovene, Greek, and Turkish, which should help prevent future errors with those languages
  • Improved XML tag filtering, which should improve accuracy for XML files (#208)
  • Tweaked SingleByteCharSetProber confidence to match latest uchardet (#209)
  • Made detect_all return child prober confidences (#210)
  • Updated examples in docs (#223, @domdfcoding)
  • Documentation fixes (#212, #224, #225, #226, #220, #221, #244 from too many to mention)
  • Minor performance improvements (#252, @deedy5)
  • Add support for Python 3.10 when testing (#232, @jdufresne)
  • Lots of little development cycle improvements, mostly thanks to @jdufresne

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