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Codec.Text.Detect

Description

Detect the likely character encoding for a stream of bytes using Mozilla's Universal Character Set Detector.

Synopsis

detectEncodingName :: ByteString -> Maybe String
detectEncoding :: ByteString -> IO (Maybe TextEncoding)

Documentation

detectEncodingName :: ByteString -> Maybe String Source #

Detect the likely encoding used by a ByteString. At the time of writing, the encoding returned will be drawn from this list:

Big5
EUC-JP
EUC-KR
gb18030
HZ-GB-2312
IBM855
IBM866
ISO-2022-CN
ISO-2022-JP
ISO-2022-KR
ISO-8859-2
ISO-8859-5
ISO-8859-7
ISO-8859-8
KOI8-R
Shift_JIS
TIS-620
UTF-8
UTF-16BE
UTF-16LE
UTF-32BE
UTF-32LE
windows-1250
windows-1251
windows-1252
windows-1253
windows-1255
x-euc-tw
X-ISO-10646-UCS-4-2143
X-ISO-10646-UCS-4-3412
x-mac-cyrillic

detectEncoding :: ByteString -> IO (Maybe TextEncoding) Source #

Detect the encoding for a ByteString and attempt to create a TextEncoding suitable for decoding it.