Uchardet-0.0.8

#### Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd Edition) - Version 12.2

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# Uchardet-0.0.8

## Introduction to Uchardet

The Uchardet package contains an encoding detector 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 12.2 platform.

### Package Information

- 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)

### Uchardet Dependencies

#### Required

CMake-3.30.2

## Installation of Uchardet

Install Uchardet by running the following commands:

    mkdir build &&
    cd    build &&

    cmake -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
          -D BUILD_STATIC=OFF          \
          -W no-dev ..                 &&
    make

To test the results, issue: make test.

Now, as the `root` user:

    make install

## Command Explanations

`-D BUILD_STATIC=OFF`: This switch disables building the static version of the library.

## Contents

Installed Programs: uchardet
Installed Libraries: libuchardet.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/uchardet

### Short Descriptions

uchardet | detects what character set is used inside of a file
`libuchardet.so` | provides an API for detecting the encoding of text in a file

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