https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1249416
Bug ID: 1249416
Summary: Package for uchardet?
Product: Fedora
Version: 22
Component: Package Review
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Reporter: [email protected]
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Hi,
I am unsure of the procedure to request new packages. Sorry by advance if
opening a report was not the right way.
mpv (already packaged in Fedora) recently got support for the uchardet library
(https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/908) which is a lot more efficient
and broad language support that enca. Enca has mostly support for latin and
cyrillic languages with the exception of Chinese. In particular it won't
recognize encodings made for Japanese or Korean (even though UTF-8 will
hopefully be someday the only used, right now this is still far from the case).
Moreover enca is officially in maintenance mode with no new features planned
(cf. http://blog.cihar.com/archives/2014/10/20/enca-116/).
On the other hand, uchardet is a C port of Mozilla encoding detection, and
therefore recognize quite well a lot of encodings:
https://github.com/BYVoid/uchardet
License is Mozilla Public License Version 1.1.
I think that uchardet (and similar libs) should supersede enca for the FOSS
distributions to be used worldwide. Right now, mplayer/mpv/vlc,etc. none of the
video players are able to read most Japanese and Korean subtitles without user
tweaking. Same for text editors, etc. (right now gedit for instance is unable t
recognize files found on the web in EUC-KR).
Would it be possible to package uchardet?
Thanks!
Note: fedora already has python-chardet and jchardet/juniversalchardet,
respectively Python and Java ports of Mozilla C++ code.
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