The Uchardet package contains an encoding detectory library which takes a sequence of bytes in an unknown character encoding and attempts to determine the encoding of the text.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 11.3 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://www.freedesktop.org/software/uchardet/releases/uchardet-0.0.8.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 9e267be7aee81417e5875086dd9d44fd
Download size: 217 KB
Estimated disk space required: 4.6 MB (with test)
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU (with test)
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/uchardet
Install Uchardet by running the following commands:
mkdir build && cd build && cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \ -DBUILD_STATIC=OFF \ -Wno-dev .. && make
To test the results, issue: make test.
Now, as the root
user:
make install
-DBUILD_STATIC=OFF
: This
switch disables building the static version of the library.