# Universal Encoding Detector

Character encoding auto-detection in Python. As smart as your browser. Open source.

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## Revision history

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Universal Encoding Detector 2.0.1 is the latest version.

`2.0.1` (2009-11-10)
  - Migrated to http://code.google.com/p/chardet
  - Fixed minor typo in documentation
  - Synchronized version numbers of Python 2 and Python 3 versions
`1.0.1-py3` (2009-06-26)
  - Released Python 3 version
`1.0.1` (2008-03-05)
  - fixed typo in detecting little endian UTF-16; closes issue 81
  - fixed length of `ISO2022JPCharLenTable`; closes issue 98
`1.0` (2006-01-10)
  - Initial release

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