document the difference between this and libchardet about uchardet HOT 3 CLOSED

Thanks. I am not familiar with libchardet, but it seems like a new project. uchardet is relatively older and not yet up to date. I will consider collaborate with libchardet.

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Hi,

I had a look, and though the main page has a 2015 copyright, the code seems to not have had any update for nearly 2 years (last commit's age is "641d 09h" at the time of writing, which — I will assume — means 641 days old). So that's not such a new project actually.

Apart from this, looking at the main page and the header (http://svn.oops.org/wsvn/OOPS.libchardet/trunk/src/chardet.h), they seem to have 2 logics to detect encoding, one with a single call (though it still needs init() and free() calls which goes against the whole point), one by feeding data with potentially several calls (same as us), though I don't really understand why they create 2 internal objects for this.
They also have API to return the version of the library.

In the end, it seems similar to us, except that they don't use a clear namespaced naming (they don't prefix their functions with some recognizable pattern like chardet_ or whatever), which can be quite a problem on big problem because of name clashing.

I've added libchardet in our list of "Related Projects".

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Also I've checked their list of commits and they don't seem to have any significant fix (there was one commit saying it fixes TIS-620 but checking it contents, it just seems it was not activated on their code, that's all. Also I've created a TIS-620 test file and it works well with uchardet), or feature that we could use in uchardet.

This concludes this ticket that I will now close.

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