rCharDet ========= rCharDet is a character encoding detection library for ruby and the implementation is based on Mozilla Charset Detectors. This is a forked project in a effort to make it Ruby 1.9 compatible Usage: require 'rubygems' require 'rchardet' cd = CharDet.detect(some_data) encoding = cd['encoding'] confidence = cd['confidence'] # 0.0 <= confidence <= 1.0 Project page: http://rubyforge.org/projects/rchardet Made for rFeedParser .