UTF.Unknown

v2.7.0

Detect character set for files, streams and other bytes. This package is based on Ude and since version 2 also on uchardet, which are ports of the Mozilla Universal Charset Detector. Features: - Easy to use API - Supports frameworks: - .NET 8, 9 and 10 - .NET Standard 2.0 - Strong named - XML documentation included Compared to Ude: - Refactored API, namespaces and removed dead code - Added some docs - Improved error handling - Improved unit tests

304NotModified

charset detection character-encoding-detector chardet unicode ascii iso-8859 utf8 utf16 codepage

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Total Downloads

10.0M

10,032,711

Published

Aug 21, 2026

Latest stable version

Install

.NET CLI

dotnet add package UTF.Unknown --version 2.7.0

Package Manager Console

Install-Package UTF.Unknown -Version 2.7.0

PackageReference

<PackageReference Include="UTF.Unknown" Version="2.7.0" />

Frameworks

net10.0 net8.0 net9.0 .NETStandard2.0

Dependencies

System.Memory

.NETStandard2.0

[4.6.3, )

System.Text.Encoding.CodePages

.NETStandard2.0

[4.7.1, )

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