Determining the language of the text

Hi again, This is an attempt to get at my problem a different way. Is there a way to tell what language a given chunk of text is? If I ask for user input, it may be in english or japanese or korean for example. If I need to unidecode the text, I need to know if it is japanese or korean. If

Re: Determining the language of the text

Hi Ron Im working on a detector for non-unicode languages. Is there a way to tell if text is in unicode or not? Detecting languages can be done via a dictionary exlusion - if the word is not in the dictionary, try next dictionary... SpellNO2 spell checking plugin has this feature planned...