On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 09:22:10AM +0100, Keith J. Schultz wrote: > Hi Khaled, > > your question can not be serious!
No, it is. > It is pretty much in the standard! No. > True enough that for most western languages american, english, spanish, > german, austrian, etc. this is somewhat difficult. Yet, these are not causing > the problems. You can’t identify the language of a Unicode string just by examining the Unicode properties for the characters in that string, simply because such Unicode property does not exist. Language identifications involves quite some statistical analysis[1]. You can identify scripts using Unicode properties quite reliably, though. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_identification#Statistical_approaches Regards, Khaled > regards > Keith. > > Am 05.12.2013 um 09:46 schrieb Khaled Hosny <[email protected]>: > > > On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 09:41:04AM +0100, Keith J. Schultz wrote: > >> Hi Scott, > >> > >> We are talking Unicode here right! What is there to guess? > > > > And how do you, using Unicode, tell in what language is this line > > written? > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
