def guess_json_utf(data): """ :rtype: str """ # JSON always starts with two ASCII characters, so detection is as # easy as counting the nulls and from their location and count # determine the encoding. Also detect a BOM, if present. sample = data[:4] if sample in (codecs.BOM_UTF32_LE, codecs.BOM_UTF32_BE): return 'utf-32' # BOM included if sample[:3] == codecs.BOM_UTF8: return 'utf-8-sig' # BOM included, MS style (discouraged) if sample[:2] in (codecs.BOM_UTF16_LE, codecs.BOM_UTF16_BE): return 'utf-16' # BOM included nullcount = sample.count(_null) if nullcount == 0: return 'utf-8' if nullcount == 2: if sample[::2] == _null2: # 1st and 3rd are null return 'utf-16-be' if sample[1::2] == _null2: # 2nd and 4th are null return 'utf-16-le' # Did not detect 2 valid UTF-16 ascii-range characters if nullcount == 3: if sample[:3] == _null3: return 'utf-32-be' if sample[1:] == _null3: return 'utf-32-le' # Did not detect a valid UTF-32 ascii-range character return None
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