From: Thomas Nitsche <thomas.nitsche@...>
Date: 2007-05-08T23:50:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Natural language detection library

On May 7, 1:54 pm, micathom <micat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You can use the zlib library for this as does deplate:
>
> from:http://deplate.sourceforge.net/Modules.html#hd008001001
>
> > The algorithm of this plugin is based on D Benedetto & E Caglioti
> > & V Loreto ?Language Trees and Zipping?[1]. It?s a direct port of
> > Dirk Holtwick?s ?Guess language of text using ZIP?[2].
>
> [1]http://xxx.uni-augsburg.de/format/cond-mat/0108530
> [2]http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/355807
>
> Ruby code:http://deplate.cvs.sourceforge.net/deplate/deplate/lib/deplate/guessl...
>
> Works quite well for me.
>
> Thomas.

thx, I don't have a clue how it works, but it's great ;-)