Charset Normalizer

Charset-normalizer is a truly universal charset encoding detector for Python. It detects the encoding of raw bytes/files using a heuristic, non-training-based approach and can optionally identify the spoken language of the content. All IANA character set names supported by CPython codecs are supported. The library also ships a `normalizer` CLI tool and a drop-in `detect()` shim for Chardet migration. Current version is 3.4.6 (released March 2026); releases follow Semantic Versioning with frequent minor/patch cadence.