Is rchardet safe to use?

rchardet has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (1.10.0). DepScope rates its health at 63/100 (moderate risk).

What is the latest version of rchardet?

The latest version of rchardet is 1.10.0, released 2025-09-10.

Does rchardet have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of rchardet.

Is rchardet deprecated?

No, rchardet is actively maintained. Latest release: 1.10.0 (2025-09-10).

What are alternatives to rchardet?

Popular alternatives to rchardet in RubyGems include: jmespath, netrc, thread_safe, crass, tzinfo.

What license does rchardet use?

rchardet is licensed under LGPL.

rchardet

rubygemsv1.10.0

Character encoding auto-detection in Ruby. As smart as your browser. Open source.

License LGPL16 versions0 deps6,508,277 weekly dl

jmhodges/rchardet

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Health

use with caution

[email protected] low health (63/100) — consider alternatives

Moderate health score (63/100) — verify manually

Health breakdown0 – 100

10/25

maintenance

17/20

popularity

25/25

security

9/15

maturity

2/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

1

Contributors (12m)

2

Primary author dominance

67%

GitHub stars

199

single active maintainer 3m

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.45medium

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

API access

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