Re: Unknown Language Identifier!

dirk elzinga wrote:


> I have to agree with Matt: this doesn't seem very useful to
> someone who is genuinely interested in the proper identification
> of a text (unless that text happens to be in a language included
> in the database).
But if your unknown text isn't in the database, knowing that it
has (at best) an 8% similarity to some other language really
doesn't say much.  Except that it probably isn't any of them.


> Also the fact that the orthography can muck things up so easily
> is disappointing (though not surprising).
An orthography is a standard part of a written language.  When
we want to identify text in English, we expect it to be written
using English orthography, not some random orthography.

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