UnicodeIUC15
Abstract

Target Audience: Software Engineer

Level of Session: Intermediate, Advanced

For many operations on text, knowing the language of the text can improve results. Invoking the right spell checker, language specific layout module, or text-to-speech module are examples of this. Markup languages like HTML and rich text formats like RTF provide means to 'tag' all parts of the text with a language designator. These features are not always used, and other data formats such as plain text, don't provide information on the language. When it would be useful to know the language of a piece of text, but language tags are not available, the language of the text can be guessed with surprising accuracy from even short runs of text. There are several common techniques that can be used to guess language.

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