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Attempts to determine the natural language of a selection of Unicode (utf-8) text. Based on `guesslanguage.cpp <http://websvn.kde.org/branches/work/sonnet-refactoring/common/nlp/guesslanguage.cpp?view=markup>`_ by Jacob R Rideout for KDE which itself is based on `Language::Guess <http://languid.cantbedone.org/>`_ by Maciej Ceglowski. Detects over 60 languages - all languages listed in the `trigrams <http://code.google.com/p/guess-language/source/browse/trunk/guess_language/trigrams/>`_ directory plus Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Greek. guess_language uses heuristics based on the character set and trigrams in a sample text to detect the language. It works better with longer samples and will be confused if the sample text includes markup such as HTML tags. Usage ===== The main entry points all take a single string as input and return a language identifier. The string must be Unicode or UTF-8 text. The language identifer can be the language name in English, the two- or three-letter IANA language code, a language ID or a tuple containing all three codes. The primary entry points, and the return values, are as follows:: guessLanguage(txt) - IANA language code guessLanguageTag(txt) - IANA language code (same as guessLanguage) guessLanguageName(txt) - Language name in English guessLanguageId(txt) - language ID guessLanguageInfo(txt) - tuple of (IANA code, id, name) Note: I (Kent Johnson) am no longer using or maintaining this code. Phi-Long DO maintains a Python 3 version (with support for lib3to2) at https://bitbucket.org/spirit/guess_language. guess_language has also been ported to JavaScript (https://github.com/wooorm/franc) and R (https://github.com/MangoTheCat/franc).

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