Lifecycle guide for UTF.Unknown from Julian Verdurmen, Rustam Sayfutdinov, Rudi Pettazzi, Shy Shalom

All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance

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📅 Last update on 2026-05-14

What is UTF.Unknown?

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Detect character set for files, streams and other bytes. This package is based on Ude and since version 2 also on uchardet, which are ports of the Mozilla Universal Charset Detector. Features: - Easy to use API - Supports frameworks: - .NET Standard 1.0 - .NET Standard 1.3 and 2.0 - .NET Core 3.0 (because `System.Text.Encoding.CodePages` in shared framework) - .NET Framework 4.0 - Strong named - XML documentation included Compared to Ude: - Refactor of API, namespaces and deadcode removal - Added some docs - Improve error handling - Improved unit tests

The entire lifecycle of UTF.Unknown

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of UTF.Unknown. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.