[ANN] charset-detector

[Denis Bardadym]

Hi group.

I did a port of ICU character detection to javascript. (the same charset detection used in chromium e.g)

NPM module: charset-detector

Repo: https://github.com/btd/node-charset-detector

I did it for several reasons: to replace my binding for icu4c in one of my projects, to learn a bit about encodings and as i have some free time.

I know that exists already jschardet - which is a port of mozilla charset detector, but 

by license MIT (my) vs LGPL

by speed my ~30% faster (i did simple benchmarks of utf8 detection and several multibyte encodings)

by list of supported encodings: jschardet knows more =) (if the ICU would have it, I would have also ported =)