chardet4j | Simple , compact charset detection for Java

chardet4j is a Java library. chardet4j has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has build file available, it has a Permissive License and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub, Maven.

The state-of-the-art character set detection library for Java is icu4j. However, the icu4j JAR file is about 13MB. This is a hefty price to pay for programs that only require charset detection! There should be a smaller option of the same quality. The chardet4j library pulls the CharsetDetector feature from icu4j and repackages it as this standalone library. This allows programs to make good use of this important feature without bloating their JARs. At the time of this writing, the chardet4j JAR comes in around 75KB. This library also implements some other important components of character set detection and decoding, namely byte order mark handling.