Re: [Tracker] Automatic Language Detection

[jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 21:55 -0500, Edward Duffy wrote:
> On 3/5/07, jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 18:19 -0500, Edward Duffy wrote:
> > > Hi Guys -
> > >
> > > I just wrote a patch for #377891[1], could I get some of you to test
> > > it.  I ran some pdfs I found with google.fr and google.it, and it
> > > seems to be working correctly...but more eyes the better.
>
> Both from http://software.wise-guys.nl/libtextcat/languages.html
> > great stuff but we only support utf-8 - are all those language modules
> > utf-8 based?
> """Our main focus will be on compiling a list of fingerprints of UTF-8
> encoded languages, since Unicode is clearly the way to go and UTF-8 is
> usually the best way to do Unicode."""
>
> It works (for my tests) if I encode the buffer to UTF-8 first, and
> I've been able to get away with just sending the first 1K of the file.


before I accept patch can you:

1) just include langs we have stopwords/stemmers for
2) check and verify each lang we support with utf8 content
3) if (2) fails use g_convert to convert utf8 to necessary char_set

I will fiddle with configure.ac once you have done the above,



jamie.