Chardet - The Universal Character Encoding Detector

Chardet is the Universal Character Encoding Detector. It detects ASCII, UTF-8, UTF-16 (2 variants), UTF-32 (4 variants), ISO-8859, Big5, GB2312, EUC-TW, HZ-GB-2312, ISO-2022-CN (Traditional and Simplified Chinese), EUC-JP, SHIFT_JIS, CP932, ISO-2022-JP (Japanese), TIS-620 (Thai).