chardetng
A character encoding detector for legacy Web content
1.0.0
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Last release 4 months ago
30 Mar 2026
Ships unpredictably
gaps range from 2 months to 4.3 years
Some releases are documented
notes for 10 of 20 stable releases
Nothing withdrawn
no release was ever pulled
7 years old
20 releases · first in 2019
1 release in the last 12 months
see the full history below
Release timeline
20 releases · Jun 2019 to Mar 2026Releases
latest 20-
1.0.030 Mar 2026Release notes
Open source →- Add method
tld_may_affect_guess. - Make
cargo testwork. - Update
arrayvec. (used only by themultithreadingfeature.) - Remove the
guess_assessAPI. - Add control whether ISO-2022-JP detection is considered or not.
- Use two-variant enum instead of a boolean for whether UTF-8 detection is allowed.
- Add method
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0.1.1723 Dec 2021Release notes
Open source →- Handle non-space space-like bytes following a windows-1252 copyright sign.
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0.1.1623 Dec 2021Release notes
Open source →- Detect windows-1252 copyright sign surrounded by spaces as windows-1252.
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0.1.1517 Oct 2021 -
0.1.1413 Aug 2021Release notes
Open source →- Add
guess_assessthat provides more information about the guess. - Upgrade the
cfg-ifdependency to 1.0.
- Add
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0.1.1315 Jun 2021Release notes
Open source →- Undo the limit on CJK extra scoring (from version 0.1.10). This change never made it to Gecko and, therefore, wasn't validated with in-practice telemetry.
- Detect inputs that have a lot of half-width katakana.
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0.1.1213 Apr 2021 -
0.1.1109 Apr 2021Release notes
Open source →- Tolerate Windows and Classic Mac OS extensions to legacy CJK encodings and tolerate JIS X 0213 extensions to Shift_JIS and EUC-JP (not ISO-2022-JP).
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0.1.1026 Nov 2020Release notes
Open source →- Stop computing extra scores for common CJK characters after enough extra-score-eligible characters have been seen. (Improves performance with long CJK inputs.)
- Add Rayon support.
- Avoid detecting windows-1252 euro sign as GBK.
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0.1.930 Apr 2020 -
0.1.830 Apr 2020Nothing published for this version
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0.1.730 Apr 2020Nothing published for this version
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0.1.618 Feb 2020Nothing published for this version
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0.1.518 Feb 2020Nothing published for this version
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0.1.417 Feb 2020Nothing published for this version
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0.1.310 Dec 2019Nothing published for this version
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0.1.210 Dec 2019Nothing published for this version
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0.1.109 Dec 2019Nothing published for this version
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0.1.005 Dec 2019Nothing published for this version
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0.0.112 Jun 2019Nothing published for this version