[TIKA-3213] Consider migrating universalcharsetdetector to a live fork

• Type: Task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.7.0
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Tim Allison
• Created: 23/Oct/20 17:49
• Updated: 06/Feb/23 16:32
• Resolved: 16/Dec/22 14:30

Description

I just came across this living fork of the aged juniversalchardet (2011!!!): https://github.com/albfernandez/juniversalchardet

It has a mozilla license, has decent star count and is published on maven central.

Obv, we'll want to run a comparison on our corpus before making this change, but I wanted to open this issue for discussion.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #862