Re: language guessing

Tomasz Grobelny <[email protected]> Wed, 08 Jun 2005 20:22:37 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.internationalization
Organization Another Netscape Collabra Server User
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote:

> Tomasz Grobelny wrote:
>> Does mozilla use code that performs language guessing?
> 
> No. If you need it, you need to have set properly a 'lang' attribute.
> 
For web pages it rarely would be usable (if at all). But I thought such a
mechanism could for example choose appropriate phrases and signatures in
e-mail client when replying.

>> I don't mean
>> character encoding guessing but determining if (for example) mail
>> received by the user was in Polish, German or English. If it is not an
>> appropriate list please direct me to the correct one. TIA
> 
> The place would be appropriate, but there is nothing like that in
> Mozilla. 
Ok, thanks. I asked just because I was told mozilla has sth like this. It
must have been a misunderstanding though.

> It would be expensive in term of CPU, and difficult to make 
I doubt it. _Maybe_ I will check if that's the case.

Tomek