R bindings for the uchardet library (<https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/uchardet/>), that is the encoding detector library of Mozilla. It takes a sequence of bytes in an unknown character encoding without any additional information, and attempts to determine the encoding of the text. Returned encoding names are iconv-compatible.
uchardet
page: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/uchardet/
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