Bump chardet from 5.2.0 to 7.0.1 in /demos

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Bumps chardet from 5.2.0 to 7.0.1.

Release notes

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7.0.1

Fixes

• Fixed false UTF-7 detection of SHA-1 git hashes (#324, fixing #323) — requirements files with VCS pins (e.g., +4bafdea3...) were misdetected as UTF-7, breaking tools like tox
• Fixed _SINGLE_LANG_MAP missing aliases for single-language encoding lookup (e.g., big5 → big5hkscs)
• Fixed PyPy TypeError in UTF-7 codec handling

Improvements

• Retrained bigram models — 24 previously failing test cases now pass
• Updated language equivalences for mutual intelligibility (Slovak/Czech, East Slavic + Bulgarian, Malay/Indonesian, Scandinavian languages)

New Contributors

• @​rembish made their first contribution — both reporting the UTF-7 false detection issue and submitting the fix! (#323, #324)

7.0.0

Ground-up, MIT-licensed rewrite of chardet. Same package name, same public API — drop-in replacement for chardet 5.x/6.x. Just way faster and more accurate!

Highlights:

• MIT license (previous versions were LGPL)
• 96.8% accuracy on 2,179 test files (+2.3pp vs chardet 6.0.0, +7.7pp vs charset-normalizer)
• 41x faster than chardet 6.0.0 with mypyc (28x pure Python), 7.5x faster than charset-normalizer
• Language detection for every result (90.5% accuracy across 49 languages)
• 99 encodings across six eras (MODERN_WEB, LEGACY_ISO, LEGACY_MAC, LEGACY_REGIONAL, DOS, MAINFRAME)
• 12-stage detection pipeline — BOM, UTF-16/32 patterns, escape sequences, binary detection, markup charset, ASCII, UTF-8 validation, byte validity, CJK gating, structural probing, statistical scoring, post-processing
• Bigram frequency models trained on CulturaX multilingual corpus data for all supported language/encoding pairs
• Optional mypyc compilation — 1.49x additional speedup on CPython
• Thread-safe detect() and detect_all() with no measurable overhead; scales on free-threaded Python 3.13t+
• Negligible import memory (96 B)
• Zero runtime dependencies

Breaking changes vs 6.0.0:

• detect() and detect_all() now default to encoding_era=EncodingEra.ALL (6.0.0 defaulted to MODERN_WEB)
• Internal architecture is completely different (probers replaced by pipeline stages). Only the public API is preserved.
• LanguageFilter is accepted but ignored (deprecation warning emitted)
• chunk_size is accepted but ignored (deprecation warning emitted)

6.0.0.post1

• Fixed version number in chardet/version.py still being set to 6.0.0dev0. Otherwise identical to 6.0.0.

6.0.0

Features

• Unified single-byte charset detection: Instead of only having trained language models for a handful of languages (Bulgarian, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Russian, Thai, Turkish) and relying on special-case Latin1Prober and MacRomanProber heuristics for Western encodings, chardet now treats all single-byte charsets the same way: every encoding gets proper language-specific bigram models trained on CulturaX corpus data. This means chardet can now accurately detect both the encoding and the language for all supported single-byte encodings.
• 38 new languages: Arabic, Belarusian, Breton, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Kazakh, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Tajik, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, and Welsh. Existing models for Bulgarian, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Russian, Thai, and Turkish were also retrained with the new pipeline.
• EncodingEra filtering: New encoding_era parameter to detect allows filtering by an EncodingEra flag enum (MODERN_WEB, LEGACY_ISO, LEGACY_MAC, LEGACY_REGIONAL, DOS, MAINFRAME, ALL) allows callers to restrict detection to encodings from a specific era. detect() and detect_all() default to MODERN_WEB. The new MODERN_WEB default should drastically improve accuracy for users who are not working with legacy data. The tiers are:
  • MODERN_WEB: UTF-8/16/32, Windows-125x, CP874, CJK multi-byte (widely used on the web)

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Changelog

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Changelog

7.0.0 (2026-03-02)

Ground-up, MIT-licensed rewrite of chardet. Same package name, same public API — drop-in replacement for chardet 5.x/6.x.

Highlights:

• MIT license (previous versions were LGPL)
• 96.8% accuracy on 2,179 test files (+2.3pp vs chardet 6.0.0, +7.7pp vs charset-normalizer)
• 41x faster than chardet 6.0.0 with mypyc (28x pure Python), 7.5x faster than charset-normalizer
• Language detection for every result (90.5% accuracy across 49 languages)
• 99 encodings across six eras (MODERN_WEB, LEGACY_ISO, LEGACY_MAC, LEGACY_REGIONAL, DOS, MAINFRAME)
• 12-stage detection pipeline — BOM, UTF-16/32 patterns, escape sequences, binary detection, markup charset, ASCII, UTF-8 validation, byte validity, CJK gating, structural probing, statistical scoring, post-processing
• Bigram frequency models trained on CulturaX multilingual corpus data for all supported language/encoding pairs
• Optional mypyc compilation — 1.49x additional speedup on CPython
• Thread-safe detect() and detect_all() with no measurable overhead; scales on free-threaded Python 3.13t+
• Negligible import memory (96 B)
• Zero runtime dependencies

Breaking changes vs 6.0.0:

• detect() and detect_all() now default to encoding_era=EncodingEra.ALL (6.0.0 defaulted to MODERN_WEB)
• Internal architecture is completely different (probers replaced by pipeline stages). Only the public API is preserved.
• LanguageFilter is accepted but ignored (deprecation warning emitted)
• chunk_size is accepted but ignored (deprecation warning emitted)

6.0.0 (2026-02-22)

Features:

• Unified single-byte charset detection with proper language-specific bigram models for all single-byte encodings (replaces Latin1Prober and MacRomanProber heuristics)

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Commits

• 330e41e docs: update benchmark numbers for expanded test suite (2,510 files)
• 83eb965 fix: remove unused cached_specs and add version mismatch diagnostic
• b5ef193 feat: skip venv creation when full cache exists for detector
• d98e26a fix: use project_root parameter instead of pip_args[0] in _resolve_version_wi...
• 5a85c25 feat: add helpers for venv-less version/tag resolution and cache checking
• f4917a3 Remove plans
• 06ae339 Use package name in cache filenames and enrich display labels
• 90fff1d Fix precommit hook failures
• 611fc0b Bump coverage requirements up to 95% since we have 100%
• cc21964 Add separate lint job back
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