Interesting.

While I am obviously Team GPL and not team "I 'rewrote' this with AI so now it's mine", I'm team anti-fork, and definitely not team 'Chardet'.

Forking should be a last resort, one better option is to yeet the thing entirely.

And chardet lends itself perfectly for this, using chardet is a sign of an issue and low craftmanship, either by the developer using chardet, or the developer that failed to signal the encoding of their text. (See Joel Spolsky's "The absolute minimum every developer should know about character encoding") (And let's be honest, it's probably the developers problem, not everything is someone else's fault.)

Just uninstall this thing where you can, and avoid installing it always, because you always can.

You know I'm right. I will not be replying to copium