""Martin v. Löwis"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |> I certainly agree that if the target set of documents is small enough it | | Ok. What advantage would you (or somebody working on a similar project) | gain if chardet was part of the standard library? What if it was not | chardet, but some other algorithm?
It seems to me that since there is not a 'correct' algorithm but only competing heuristics, encoding detection modules should be made available via PyPI and only be considered for stdlib after a best of breed emerges with community support.
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