diff --git a/types/detect-character-encoding/detect-character-encoding-tests.ts b/types/detect-character-encoding/detect-character-encoding-tests.ts
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+import detectCharacterEncoding = require("detect-character-encoding");
+
+const buf: Buffer = null as any;
+
+const result: detectCharacterEncoding.Result | null = detectCharacterEncoding(buf);
+
+if (result) {
+    const str: string = result.encoding;
+    const num: number = result.confidence;
+}
diff --git a/types/detect-character-encoding/index.d.ts b/types/detect-character-encoding/index.d.ts
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+++ b/types/detect-character-encoding/index.d.ts
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+// Type definitions for detect-character-encoding 0.7
+// Project: https://github.com/sonicdoe/detect-character-encoding#readme
+// Definitions by: BendingBender <https://github.com/BendingBender>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+
+/// <reference types="node"/>
+
+export = detectCharacterEncoding;
+
+declare function detectCharacterEncoding(buf: Buffer): detectCharacterEncoding.Result | null;
+
+declare namespace detectCharacterEncoding {
+    interface Result {
+        encoding: string;
+        confidence: number;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/types/detect-character-encoding/tsconfig.json b/types/detect-character-encoding/tsconfig.json
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+{
+    "compilerOptions": {
+        "module": "commonjs",
+        "lib": [
+            "es6"
+        ],
+        "noImplicitAny": true,
+        "noImplicitThis": true,
+        "strictNullChecks": true,
+        "strictFunctionTypes": true,
+        "baseUrl": "../",
+        "typeRoots": [
+            "../"
+        ],
+        "types": [],
+        "noEmit": true,
+        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
+    },
+    "files": [
+        "index.d.ts",
+        "detect-character-encoding-tests.ts"
+    ]
+}
diff --git a/types/detect-character-encoding/tslint.json b/types/detect-character-encoding/tslint.json
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+{ "extends": "dtslint/dt.json" }