[BiteCode_dev]

Fantastic write up.

I regularly use the Python port of the original chardet (https://pypi.org/project/chardet/). In fact, most python devs do since it comes with requests.

This post is full of gems. E.G: I learned that it's important for your meta charset to be in the first 1024 bytes of your HTML :)

[jdashg]

FWIW Firefox issues a warning if it finds your charset declaration late, outside the 1024. Long copyright or license headers can cause this problem, annoyingly.