Fixes #3584

package.json

@@ -128,7 +128,6 @@
 		"@11ty/recursive-copy": "^3.0.1",
 		"@sindresorhus/slugify": "^2.2.1",
 		"bcp-47-normalize": "^2.3.0",
-		"chardet": "^2.0.0",
 		"chokidar": "^3.6.0",
 		"cross-spawn": "^7.0.6",
 		"debug": "^4.3.7",

src/TemplateContent.js

@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ import matter from "gray-matter";
 import lodash from "@11ty/lodash-custom";
 import { TemplatePath } from "@11ty/eleventy-utils";
 import debugUtil from "debug";
-import chardet from "chardet";
 
 import EleventyExtensionMap from "./EleventyExtensionMap.js";
 import TemplateData from "./Data/TemplateData.js";
@@ -18,7 +17,6 @@ import { withResolvers } from "./Util/PromiseUtil.js";
 
 const { set: lodashSet } = lodash;
 const debug = debugUtil("Eleventy:TemplateContent");
-const debugDiagnostic = debugUtil("Eleventy:Diagnostics");
 const debugDev = debugUtil("Dev:Eleventy:TemplateContent");
 
 class TemplateContentConfigError extends EleventyBaseError {}
@@ -305,22 +303,6 @@ class TemplateContent {
 		if (!content && content !== "") {
 			let contentBuffer = fs.readFileSync(this.inputPath);
 
-			if (process.env.DEBUG) {
-				// Warning: this is slow!!
-				let encoding = chardet.detect(contentBuffer);
-
-				if (encoding.startsWith("UTF-16")) {
-					debug("Warning: %o encoding detected on %o.", encoding, this.inputPath);
-					debugDiagnostic(
-						"%o encoding detected on %o. Please re-save as UTF-8.",
-						encoding,
-						this.inputPath,
-					);
-				} else {
-					debug("%o encoding detected on %o.", encoding, this.inputPath);
-				}
-			}
-
 			content = contentBuffer.toString("utf8");
 
 			if (this.config.useTemplateCache) {