Version 1.3.7

Changes :

• Bugfix: 🐛 The legacy detect function should return UTF-8-SIG if sig is present in the payload. #38

Version 1.3.6

Amend the previous release to allow prettytable 2.0
Thanks to @jayvdb #35

Version 1.3.5

Changes :

• Miscellaneous: 🔧 Dependencies refactor, add python 3.9 and 3.10 to the supported interpreters
• Bugfix: 🐛 Fix error while using the package with a python pre-release interpreter #33

Small refresh to keep the project up and running until further dev. (Upcoming version 1.4.0)
Thanks to the many adopters.

Charset Normalizer

Changes :

• Improvement/Bugfix : False positive when searching for successive upper, lower char. (ProbeChaos) (#31)

Charset Normalizer

Changes :

• Improvement : Noticeable better detection for jp #30

Charset Normalizer

Changes :

• Bugfix : Passing zero-length bytes to from_bytes (#29)

Charset Normalizer

Changes :

• Improvement : Expose version in package (#18)
• Bugfix : Division by zero (#23)
• Improvement : Prefers unicode (utf-8) when detected (#19)

Charset Normalizer

Changes :

• Feature : Now support unicodedata2 backport. To benefit from it install using pip install charset-normalizer[UnicodeDataBackport]. Python 3.7 have UnicodeData v11. You could upgrade it to v12.
• Feature : Added preemptive behaviour. Looking for a declared encoding. Using positional parameter preemptive_behaviour. Default to True. Does not take declared encoding for it, testing it first.
• Improvement : Added aliases to CharsetNormalizerMatches class. CharsetDetector; EncodingDetector and CharsetDoctor.

Charset Normalizer

Changes :

• Feature : Added has_submatch, percent_chaos and percent_coherence properties on single match object.
• Improvement : best() method of CharsetNormalizerMatches has been rewritten for better readability.
• Feature : Added explain boolean positional parameter to print out what actually happen when searching for a match.
• Improvement : Detection has been globally improved.
• Feature : You can exclude some encoding when searching for a match with parameter cp_exclusion. List of str. for from_bytes from_path and from_fp.
• Feature : You can limit the search to some encoding when looking for a match with parameter cp_isolation. List of str. for from_bytes from_path and from_fp.
• Feature : import charset_normalizer is enough to provide additional help when you encounter UnicodeDecodeError exception.

Charset Normalizer

Changes :

• Bugfix : from_bytes parameters steps and chunk_size were not adapted to sequence len if provided values were not fitted to content. Therefore could lead to misdetection on small content.