Re: [Q] Chardet library

JongAm Park wrote:
> Thank you for the URL.
> 
> However, it doesn't really shows what headers and libraries should be 
> used for other projects. There are list of header files on the bottom of 
> the page. However it is not clear if those files are supposed to be 
> included in other project, or they are just used inside ofthe chardet 
> library.
> 
> Can you give me Frank's and Shanjian's email addresses?

Jong, I will a little contradict Momoi, but I think there's chances 
he'll approve after reading what I have to say on the subject.

Neither Franck nor Shanjian are currently involved in the mozilla 
project, I'm not sure you will get a lot of help from them.

I think the best choice for you would be not to attack the charset 
library generically, but to use directly the universal detector within 
it. If you do so, I can help you a bit.

The whole charset library consist of many different charset detectors, 
most are dedicated to detecting some specifics charsets for several 
language group. This require that you know enough about the charset to 
select the right detector, which is not great.
That's why I recommend you use only the universal detector within them.

If you go this way you have two choice :

- either you use the XPCOM interface around the universal detector. 
Going that way will be similar to what Momoi described, you just will 
just have to set the detector to universal. I can explain you how to do 
that simply, based for example on the UniversalChardetTest.exe sample 
included with mozilla. But the problem is that you will need to set up 
an XPCOM development environnement and include XPCOM libraries in your 
application.

- or you talk directly the universal detector without the XPCOM layer. 
This is talked about in this page, 
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/intl/detectorsrc.html, and here
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=178790

Unfortunately I can not at the moment give you detailled instruction for 
that method, but it will be much lighter to implement in your solution, 
so it might be a better choice.