Textfile classification (encoding, languages etc.)

[Zack Rusin]

On Thursday 25 September 2003 15:06, Malte Starostik wrote:
> While all of this might be a bit of overkill in many cases, I think
> it would also make KDE shine even more in international and
> especially multilingual environments.  What do you think?

Fascinating idea. I'd definitely be willing to spend a lot of time on 
that.

> PS: any comments on making KSpell use libaspell or pspell instead of
> an external process if available?

Oh, yeah, I'll be rewriting it once I'll get some more time. Laurent 
wrote kospell which kind of does this but keeps the KSpell api and 
makes creating new backends rather a pain. I like Enchant, but I'm 
still not too keen on the Glib dependency. I like how instead of using 
the ispell process they simply wrote it as a library and are using it. 
We should do the same so that instead of using kprocess we use the 
libraries directly. 
So, we might meet on irc or start a discussion at some point and decide 
whether we want to write a completely new implementation - we have 
enough of use cases and after spending too much time with kspell and 
other spell checkers I know what's needed so I'd vote for that. We can 
also use Enchant. The problem with that is that we would have to write 
our frontend to it anyway, which would pretty much end up with #1 but 
witch Enchant as the only backend.
But anyway, what algorithm are you using to detect the languages? Is it 
regexp based or is something more fun? You definitely got my full 
attention.

Zack

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