Re: Moving spellcheckers into the Gtk+ stack

[Paolo Maggi <paolo maggi polito it>]

> For long texts it would be good to have an algorithm to recognize the
> language of a single paragraph, Microsoft Word does it, but I don't know
> how it works.

I think it is out of the scope of this library since it is an application specific problem.

BTW, libtextcat (http://software.wise-guys.nl/libtextcat/) seems a good library to implement
such a feature (probably is missing a proper UTF-8 support).

See also http://odur.let.rug.nl/~vannoord/TextCat/competitors.html

Ciao,
Paolo