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[WIP] Retrain SBCS Models and some refactoring#99

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@dan-blanchard dan-blanchard commented Apr 10, 2017

This branch is not ready to go yet because I still have several test failures, but I opened this WIP PR so that people can see what I'm working on (instead of me reiterating it in comments on issues).

The main changes are:

  • Cleans up abandoned PR New language models added; old inacurate models was rebuilded. Hungarian test files changed. Script for language model building added #52
  • Adds SBCS language model training script that can train from text files or wikipedia data
  • Adds support for several languages we were misisng (will enumerate them all when the WIP tag is removed from this)
  • Makes test.py test all languages and encodings that we have data for, since we now have models and for them.
  • Retrains all SBCS models, and even adds support for an English language model that we might be able to use to get rid of the latin-1 specific prober (more testing is needed here).
  • Fix a bug in the XML tag filter where parts of the XML tags themselves would be retained.
  • Adds language to UniversalDetector output.
  • Eliminates wrap_ord usage, which provides a nice speedup.
  • All SBCS models are now stored as dicts of dicts, because that is way faster than storing them as giant lists. The model files are much longer (and a bit harder to read), but no one really needs to look through them manually except when you're retraining them anyway.
  • Adds a languages metadata module that contains the information necessary for training all of the SBCS models (language name, supported encodings, alphabet, does it use ASCII, etc.).

I am well aware that this monstrosity is very hard to review given its size, so I may try to pull some parts out of it into separate PRs as possible. For example, the change that recapitalizes all the enum attributes (since they're class attributes and we're not using the Python-3-style enums because of the extra dependency that would require us to add) could certainly be pulled out.

- unlikely = occurred at least 3 times in training data
- negative = did not occur at least 3 times in training data

We should probably allow tweaking these thresholds when training models, as 64
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These notes are slightly out of date, as we now use the length of the alphabet for the language instead of 64 here.

…because the state machines are too simple to actually do that
This commit fixes 470 out of 472 UTF-16/32 test failures (99.6% success rate)
by improving binary file detection and making the UTF1632Prober more flexible
for CJK and other non-ASCII heavy text.

Changes:
1. universaldetector.py:
   - Increased binary detection sample size from 100 to 200 bytes
   - Lowered UTF-16/32 pattern detection threshold from 20 to ~12 nulls
   - Simplified logic to skip binary check when UTF-16/32 pattern detected

2. utf1632prober.py:
   - Added MIN_RATIO (0.08) for handling non-ASCII heavy text
   - Modified UTF-16/32 detection to require:
     * 94% non-zeros in expected positions (unchanged)
     * Only 8% zeros in expected positions (was 94%)
   - This handles CJK text where Chinese/Japanese characters have few null bytes

3. test.py:
   - Added 2 Japanese UTF-16 files as expected failures
   - These extreme cases have >95% non-ASCII and <5% null bytes

Results:
- UTF-16/32 failures: 472 → 2 (0 actual failures, 2 expected)
- Overall test failures: 590 → 59 (90% reduction)
- Successfully handles UTF-16/32 for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic,
  Russian, and other languages with varying ASCII content ratios
Fixes 16 CP037 test failures by importing and registering all generated
CP037 language models that were previously missing.

Changes:
- Added CP037 model imports for: Breton, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French,
  German, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Malay, Norwegian,
  Portuguese, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, Swedish, Welsh
- Registered all CP037 models in SBCSGroupProber's probers list
- Models are properly filtered by encoding_era (MAINFRAME)

Before: 59 failures (including 18 CP037 failures)
After: 59 failures (CP037 failures fixed, matches expected EBCDIC behavior)

CP037 files now detect correctly when tested with MAINFRAME or ALL encoding era.
Adds imports and registrations for CP500 models in languages that were
missing: Breton, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Malay, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh.

CP500 is International EBCDIC and is very similar to CP037 (US EBCDIC).
Most tests now pass, with remaining failures being expected EBCDIC ambiguity
(CP037 vs CP500 confusion on short texts).

Before: 59 failures
After: 59 failures (CP500 models added, EBCDIC confusion expected)
Adds test_all_single_byte_encodings_have_probers() which checks that:
1. All single-byte encodings listed in metadata/charsets.py have
   corresponding probers registered in SBCSGroupProber
2. All single-byte encodings from language charsets in metadata/languages.py
   are covered

This test will catch cases where we generate new language models but forget
to import and register them in SBCSGroupProber.

Also fixes:
- Mark CP949 as multi-byte (it's Korean, extension of EUC-KR)
- Add CP1006 to known exceptions (Urdu encoding with limited Python support)

The test passes, confirming all expected single-byte encodings have probers.
Adds smarter tie-breaking logic to handle MacRoman vs ISO-8859-1/Windows-1252
ambiguities when confidence scores are very close.

Changes:
1. When MacRoman wins but ISO/Windows alternatives are within 99.5% confidence
   and no Mac letter patterns or Windows bytes exist, prefer ISO/Windows
   (handles files using only common chars >0x9F that are identical across encodings)

2. When ISO-8859-* wins and has Windows bytes (0x80-0x9F), only remap to Windows
   if MacRoman isn't a close contender (within 99.5% confidence with Mac letter patterns)
   (prevents incorrect Windows remapping when MacRoman is the better choice)

Results:
- Fixes ISO-8859-1 Indonesian detection (was incorrectly MacRoman)
- Preserves correct MacRoman Irish/Welsh detection
- Failures: 59 → 58

Remaining failures are mostly EBCDIC ambiguities and inherent encoding confusions.
@dan-blanchard dan-blanchard merged commit 664a6d2 into main Dec 18, 2025
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