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I am using chardet to detect encoding of text files including Italian. The problem is it consistently detects their encoding as iso-8859-2 while the correct detection would be iso-8859-1. Does anybody know a fix?
My local language is set to Polish? Could that influence the detection?
chardet doesn’t support iso-8859-1, that’s why it’s not detecting it.
For supported character encodings, see chardets homepage – http://pypi.python.org/pypi/chardet.
I use the Linux program ‘file’ to get the character encoding of different content, however I’m not sure how safe it is, see my question – Encoding detection in Python, use the chardet library or not?. But it works with great results for me so far.
Btw, your local language should not influence the detection.