https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91766

--- Comment #19 from Mike Kaganski <[email protected]> ---
There is a feature in LibreOffice to use system input language to set language
of typed text. It is implemented currently on Windows and on Qt5 (bug 108151).
Where it is implemented, it is a reliable and unambiguous feature, making use
of input switch performed by user. That is widely used by any user who uses
keyboard layouts that require switching (e.g., bilinguals using a Cyrillic and
Latin alphabets) - they have keyboard shortcuts like Shift+Alt in muscle
memory. But those who typically use same layout roe different languages (Roman
languages), often don't even know that such a feature exists, and for them,
some magic is expected detecting that their one-character "a" is in some
specific language.

We already have a "magic" "detecting" possible language of a text, that works
when you work with Tools->Language menu, and also when you have a spellcheck
error. The list of offered languages is created based on statistical
fingerprint heuristics, and we already have multiple bugs showing how
unreliable and random that detection is (see e.g. bug 139185 comment 4).

I would think that implementing this proposal is only reliably possible by
employing mind-reading elf farm serving requests from LibreOffice in real time.

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