You should put this in the issue tracker, and have people vote it up.  We
try as hard as we can to implement popular issues.
http://code.google.com/p/google-ajax-apis/issues/list

-Ben

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 11:25 PM, Khoa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> How about a same word are used in many language?
> For example:
> "lung"
> It has meaning in Vietnamese and English.
> When I try Google language detect, it response with "ROMANIAN"
> It means "lung" also has meaning in Romanian.
>
> My goal is how to know the word 'lung' whether is Vietnamese or not.
>
> I think it should have a function detect a word against a specific
> language and return yes, no or reliable percent...
> Or, it detect language and return with a list of possible languages.
>
>
>
> On Aug 28, 2:42 am, "Ben Lisbakken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Khoa --
> >
> > If you are trying to detect the language of a single word, such as "an",
> > then you are bound to have problems.  The longer the sentence, the more
> > accurate language detection works.  If you are trying to just see if a
> > phrase is Vietnamese, use:
> > google.language.detect(text, callback)
> >
> > And check if the output is Vietnamese.
> >
> > -Ben
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Khoa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > Is there any way to detect whether a text is a specific language or
> > > not?
> > > I think in some cases, a word can be used in many languages.
> >
> > > For example:
> > > I try to detect the word "an". The detection script show that it is
> > > GERMAN, but it also has meaning in Vietnamese and English as well.
> >
> > > Therefore, I only want to know whether the text is Vietnamese or not.
> > > I don't want to know what language is it.
> >
> > > Is it possible?
> >
>

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