# chardet - characted detection module, pure Javascript

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

## 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');

## 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

Currently only these encodings are supported, more will be added soon.