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Chardet is a character detection module for NodeJS written in pure Javascript.
Module is based on ICU project http://site.icu-project.org/, which uses character
occurency analysis to determine the most probable encoding.
## Installation
npm install chardet
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## Usage
var chardet = require('chardet');
chardet.detect(new Buffer('hello there!'));
// or
chardet.detectFile('/path/to/file', function(err, encoding) {});
// or
chardet.detectFileSync('/path/to/file');
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## Supported Encodings:
* UTF-8
* UTF-16 LE
* UTF-16 BE
* UTF-32 LE
* UTF-32 BE
* ISO-2022-JP
* ISO-2022-KR
* ISO-2022-CN
* Shift-JIS
* Big5
* EUC-JP
* EUC-KR
* GB18030
* ISO-8859-1
* ISO-8859-2
* ISO-8859-5
* ISO-8859-6
* ISO-8859-7
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* ISO-8859-8
* ISO-8859-9
* windows-1250
* windows-1251
* windows-1252
* windows-1253
* windows-1254
* windows-1255
* windows-1256
* KOI8-R
Currently only these encodings are supported, more will be added soon.