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<h1><a href="/">Universal Encoding Detector</a></h1>
<p>Character encoding auto-detection in Python.  As smart as your browser.  Open source.</p>
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<li><span class="section"><a href="faq.html#faq.intro">What is character encoding?</a></span></li>
<li><span class="section"><a href="faq.html#faq.what">What is character encoding auto-detection?</a></span></li>
<li><span class="section"><a href="faq.html#faq.impossible">Isn’t that impossible?</a></span></li>
<li><span class="section"><a href="faq.html#faq.who">Who wrote this detection algorithm?</a></span></li>
<li><span class="section"><a href="faq.html#faq.yippie">Yippie!  Screw the standards, I’ll just auto-detect everything!</a></span></li>
<li><span class="section"><a href="faq.html#faq.why">Why bother with auto-detection if it’s slow, inaccurate, and non-standard?</a></span></li>
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