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.
Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the book.
Download (HTTP): https://www.freedesktop.org/software/uchardet/releases/uchardet-0.0.7.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 623406dac5c5ad89e40eedd7f279efae
Download size: 212 KB
Estimated disk space required: 4.2 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU
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.