CharsetDetect (CharsetDetect v0.2.0)

CharsetDetect is a simple wrapper around the chardetng crate.

See the README for the detection policy and its security trade-offs.

Summary

guess(body)

Guess the encoding of a string.

guess!(body)

Guess the encoding of a string (exceptional).

@spec guess(binary()) :: {:ok, String.t()} | {:error, String.t()}

Guess the encoding of a string.

iex> File.read!("test/assets/sjis.txt") |> CharsetDetect.guess
{:ok, "Shift_JIS"}

@spec guess!(binary()) :: String.t()

Guess the encoding of a string (exceptional).

iex> File.read!("test/assets/big5.txt") |> CharsetDetect.guess!
"Big5"