uchardet: The Universal Character Encoding Detector

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The Universal Character Encoding Detector

Description

R bindings for the uchardet library (<https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/uchardet/>), that is the encoding detector library of Mozilla. It takes a sequence of bytes in an unknown character encoding without any additional information, and attempts to determine the encoding of the text. Returned encoding names are iconv-compatible.

Author(s)

Maintainer: Artem Klevtsov [e-mail] (ORCID)

Other contributors:

• Philipp Upravitelev [e-mail] [contributor]

References

uchardet page: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/uchardet/

See Also

Useful links:

• https://artemklevtsov.gitlab.io/uchardet

• https://gitlab.com/artemklevtsov/uchardet

• Report bugs at https://gitlab.com/artemklevtsov/uchardet/-/issues

Examples

# detect character vector with ASCII strings
ascii <- "I can eat glass and it doesn't hurt me."
detect_str_enc(ascii)

# detect character vector with UTF-8 strings
utf8 <- "\u4e0b\u5348\u597d"
print(utf8)
detect_str_enc(utf8)

# function to read ASCII or UTF-8 files
read_file <- function(x) readChar(x, file.size(x))
# path to examples
ex_path <- system.file("examples", package = "uchardet")

# russian text
ru_utf8 <- read_file(file.path(ex_path, "ru.txt"))
print(ru_utf8)
detect_str_enc(iconv(ru_utf8, "utf8", "ibm866"))
detect_str_enc(iconv(ru_utf8, "utf8", "koi8-r"))
detect_str_enc(iconv(ru_utf8, "utf8", "cp1251"))

# china text
zh_utf8 <- read_file(file.path(ex_path, "zh.txt"))
print(zh_utf8)
detect_str_enc(iconv(zh_utf8, "utf8", "big5"))
detect_str_enc(iconv(zh_utf8, "utf8", "gb18030"))

# korean text
ko_utf8 <- read_file(file.path(ex_path, "ko.txt"))
print(ko_utf8)
detect_str_enc(iconv(ko_utf8, "utf8", "uhc"))
detect_str_enc(iconv(ko_utf8, "utf8", "iso-2022-kr"))
# detect ASCII file encoding
detect_file_enc(system.file("DESCRIPTION", package = "uchardet"))

# paths to examples files
ex_path <- system.file("examples", package = "uchardet")
# various langaues and encodings examples files
ex_files <- Sys.glob(file.path(ex_path, "*", "*"))
# detect files encodings
detect_file_enc(head(ex_files, 10))
# detect raw vector encoding with ASCII encoding
ascii <- "I can eat glass and it doesn't hurt me."
detect_raw_enc(charToRaw(ascii))

# detect raw vector with UTF-8 encoding
utf8 <- "\u4e0b\u5348\u597d"
detect_raw_enc(charToRaw(utf8))

# function to read file as raw bytes
read_bin <- function(x) readBin(x, raw(), file.size(x))

# detect encoding of files read as raw vector
ex_path <- system.file("examples", package = "uchardet")

# deutsch text as binary data
de_bin <- read_bin(file.path(ex_path, "de", "windows-1252.txt"))
detect_raw_enc(de_bin)

# russian text as binary data
ru_bin <- read_bin(file.path(ex_path, "ru", "windows-1251.txt"))
detect_raw_enc(ru_bin)

# china text as binary data
zh_bin <- read_bin(file.path(ex_path, "zh", "utf-8.txt"))
detect_raw_enc(zh_bin)

uchardet documentation built on Nov. 10, 2022, 5:52 p.m.