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#766 — Language detection
- bug_id:
766
- creation_ts:
2012-10-09 14:13:00 -0700
- short_desc:
Language detection
- delta_ts:
2012-12-17 17:56:51 -0800
- product:
Internationalization - ECMA-402
- component:
Specification
- version:
Edition 2.0 proposals
- rep_platform:
All
- op_sys:
All
- bug_status:
RESOLVED
- resolution:
WONTFIX
- bug_severity:
enhancement
- everconfirmed:
true
- reporter:
Nebojša Ćirić
- assigned_to:
Norbert
- commentid:
1901
- comment_count:
0
- who:
Nebojša Ćirić
- bug_when:
2012-10-09 14:13:34 -0700
Given a chunk of text, detect the language.
We feel it would be very hard to write a specification, and that it belongs more to the browser layer than to a low level API.
- commentid:
3025
- comment_count:
1
- who:
Norbert
- bug_when:
2012-12-17 17:56:51 -0800
The 2012-10-05 internationalization meeting decided that language detection is out of scope for the internationalization API since it's big, complicated, specialized, and hard to standardize.