This is a minimal cgo bindings for libenca.
If you need to detect the language of a string you can use guesslanguage package.
enca is tested against Go 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 and tip.
Install libenca to your system:
$ sudo apt-get install libenca0 libenca-dev
Install in your ${GOPATH} using go get -u github.com/endeveit/enca
Then call it:
package main
import (
"fmt"
"github.com/endeveit/enca"
)
func main() {
analyzer, err := enca.New("zh")
if err == nil {
encoding, err := analyzer.FromString("美国各州选民今天开始正式投票。据信，", enca.NAME_STYLE_HUMAN)
defer analyzer.Free()
// Output:
// UTF-8
if err == nil {
fmt.Println(encoding)
}
}
}godoc is available here.