[Qt-interest] Heuristics for determining text codec of file

[suzuki toshiya]

Oh, I'm sorry for writing about a software in incompatible
license. Chromium license may be compatible, but I feel
the character encoding detection by Chrome is worse than
Mozilla...

Regards,
mpsuzuki

Robert Hairgrove wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 15:05 +0900, suzuki toshiya wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Although I've never tried to build or use, I heard that
>> the character encoding detection of Mozilla can be built
>> as a standalone module:
>>
>> Very old description:
>> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/intl/detectorsrc.html
>>
>> source code:
>> http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/3ac595ba8c43/extensions/universalchardet
>>
>> If you think Mozilla's detection is sufficient for you,
>> please try.
> 
> On second look, I have to modify the Mozilla source code in order to use
> it like this. Unfortunately, my app will be LGPLed, so looks like I will
> have to roll my own. Besides, as you have pointed out, it is very old
> code... and looks like Cyrillic isn't handled too well.
> 
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