On 2008-04-23 07:26, Terry Reedy wrote:
""Martin v. Löwis"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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|> 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.
+1
Though in practice, determining the "best of breed" often becomes a
problem (see e.g. the JSON implementation discussion).
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