Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version 11.1

Chapter 9. General Libraries

Uchardet-0.0.7

Introduction to Uchardet

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-11.1 platform.

Package Information

Uchardet Dependencies

Required

CMake-3.22.2

User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/uchardet

Installation of 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

Command Explanations

-DBUILD_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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