359709 - We should implement automatic language recognition features

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 338427

(Core :: DOM: Editor, enhancement)

Description

[Manuel Vázquez Acosta]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20060601 Firefox/2.0 (Ubuntu-edgy)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20060601 Firefox/2.0 (Ubuntu-edgy)

We should implement automatic language recognition features. This along with spell checking would improve user experience.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
N/A

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 338427 ***

Comment 2

[Manuel Vázquez Acosta]

I had something else in mind when I issued this bug, not exactly what is been discused in bug 338427. 

We could write code to automatically detect the language. I mean, in the
absence of lang and xml:lang attributes - no other information is used besides
the text itself. 

There are several techniques that can be used - a simple one: count the letters
frequencies in the text. There are lots of paper on this topic. You can search
Google Scholar for "Automatic Language Detection" and see our options.

his feature can be used in Composer alone. Composer can automatically (with
the user's consent) add the lang or xml:lang attributes as appropriated.

This is why this bug is about Editor and not about Firefox.

Should we reopen this bug?