flutter_charset_detector #

Automatically detect and decode the charset (character encoding) of text bytes.

The example app; details

This plugin uses native libraries derived from the universal charset detection libraries created by Mozilla.

• iOS: UniversalDetector, a thin wrapper around uchardet
• Android: juniversalchardet, a Java implementation of universalchardet

Supported platforms #

• Android 4.1 (SDK 16) and higher
• iOS 9 and higher

Usage #

import 'package:flutter_charset_detector/flutter_charset_detector.dart';

Uint8List bytes = getBytes(); // bytes with unknown encoding
DecodingResult result = CharsetDetector.autoDecode(bytes);
print(result.encoding); // => e.g. 'SHIFT_JIS'
print(result.string); // => e.g. '日本語'

See also #

• charset_converter if you already know the name of the charset you want to encode/decode