How To: Identify a Language of a webpage or app

ritesh.techie · 20-09-2009, 11:45 AM

Most of the free translations services available online ask you to select the language you want to translate a text from. This means that if you don't know what language it is you can not translate it in your language

Using LangID you can know in which language a text was written and then use an external service to translate it. The output of LangID is very simple they provide-

English name of the language,
the ISO code and
an icon rapresenting the flag of one of the countries this language is spoken in

LangID uses Google Ajax API to identify the languages.
Currently they support 85 languages

How to use it-
Just type the phrase or copy/paste from the webpage/application of which language you want to find out

and then click on Identify it button

and here is the output.

Aspire · 21-09-2009, 09:56 AM

It's too lengthy and time consuming!!
A simpler way

Go here

Select first option as Detect Language and Second Option as English and click Translate.

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yiouyio · 18-10-2009, 09:47 AM

Right click on the web page, and click the popup menu item "View page source", you can find some text opened in the new window, then at the html begining party, the line such as "<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />" will tell the character set, 8859-1 is for various languages such as English, French, German, Spanish and a host of others. That is why it's called Western European. It also includes regions like Australia, much of Africa and all of the Americas.

**topgear** · 02-11-2009, 07:47 AM

Nice trick guys

dina · 18-11-2009, 04:56 PM

Hey, nice sharing.

kanishka · 18-11-2009, 08:58 PM

that's what i generally do .

else i translate page into english directly through toolbar. After translation , it tells you which language is present in page.

ritesh.techie · 19-11-2009, 04:03 PM

@ All Thanks

**topgear** · 20-11-2009, 04:49 AM

When I type in Bengali in LangID it was recognized as spanish

What a fun !!

Aspire · 21-11-2009, 08:26 AM

Quote:

When I type in Bengali in LangID it was recognized as spanish

Google Translate is gonna detect it correctly
Try

**topgear** · 22-11-2009, 05:15 AM

^^ Thanks for the link buddy but google translate does not supports bengali and I even tried that with detect language setting

20-09-2009, 11:45 AM	#1 (permalink)
ritesh.techie Apprentice Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Bhopal, India Posts: 99	How To: Identify a Language of a webpage or app Most of the free translations services available online ask you to select the language you want to translate a text from. This means that if you don't know what language it is you can not translate it in your language Using LangID you can know in which language a text was written and then use an external service to translate it. The output of LangID is very simple they provide- English name of the language, the ISO code and an icon rapresenting the flag of one of the countries this language is spoken in LangID uses Google Ajax API to identify the languages. Currently they support 85 languages How to use it- Just type the phrase or copy/paste from the webpage/application of which language you want to find out and then click on Identify it button and here is the output. __________________ Get all latest tips and tricks at http://beingpc.com/

21-09-2009, 09:56 AM	#2 (permalink)
Aspire Alpha Geek Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 835	Re: How To: Identify a Language of a webpage or app It's too lengthy and time consuming!! A simpler way Go here Select first option as Detect Language and Second Option as English and click Translate. Languages Available Afrikaans Albanian Arabic Belarusian Bulgarian Catalan Chinese Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Filipino Finnish French Galician German Greek Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Irish Italian Japanese Korean Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Malay Maltese Norwegian Persian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swahili Swedish Thai Turkish Ukrainian Vietnamese Welsh Yiddish

18-10-2009, 09:47 AM	#3 (permalink)
yiouyio Right Off the Assembly Line Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 31	Re: How To: Identify a Language of a webpage or app Right click on the web page, and click the popup menu item "View page source", you can find some text opened in the new window, then at the html begining party, the line such as "<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />" will tell the character set, 8859-1 is for various languages such as English, French, German, Spanish and a host of others. That is why it's called Western European. It also includes regions like Australia, much of Africa and all of the Americas. Last edited by yiouyio; 18-10-2009 at 09:52 AM. Reason: Automerged Doublepost

02-11-2009, 07:47 AM	#4 (permalink)
topgear Fast 'N' Furious Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Geek's Heaven Posts: 9,126	Re: How To: Identify a Language of a webpage or app Nice trick guys __________________ ToPsPeEeD = FaSt BuT StEaDy AMD Radeon HD 6850 OverClocked to 1 Ghz !!! Blog : http://topgeartopspeed.wordpress.com/ ---------------------------------------------------- Never buy viewsonic products : http://tinyurl.com/ykwx4oa

18-11-2009, 04:56 PM	#5 (permalink)
dina Right Off the Assembly Line Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 2	Re: How To: Identify a Language of a webpage or app Hey, nice sharing.

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18-11-2009, 08:58 PM	#6 (permalink)
kanishka In the books..Studying Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Raipur Posts: 140	Re: How To: Identify a Language of a webpage or app that's what i generally do . else i translate page into english directly through toolbar. After translation , it tells you which language is present in page.

19-11-2009, 04:03 PM	#7 (permalink)
ritesh.techie Apprentice Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Bhopal, India Posts: 99	Re: How To: Identify a Language of a webpage or app @ All Thanks __________________ Get all latest tips and tricks at http://beingpc.com/

20-11-2009, 04:49 AM	#8 (permalink)
topgear Fast 'N' Furious Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Geek's Heaven Posts: 9,126	Re: How To: Identify a Language of a webpage or app When I type in Bengali in LangID it was recognized as spanish What a fun !! __________________ ToPsPeEeD = FaSt BuT StEaDy AMD Radeon HD 6850 OverClocked to 1 Ghz !!! Blog : http://topgeartopspeed.wordpress.com/ ---------------------------------------------------- Never buy viewsonic products : http://tinyurl.com/ykwx4oa

22-11-2009, 05:15 AM	#10 (permalink)
topgear Fast 'N' Furious Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Geek's Heaven Posts: 9,126	Re: How To: Identify a Language of a webpage or app ^^ Thanks for the link buddy but google translate does not supports bengali and I even tried that with detect language setting __________________ ToPsPeEeD = FaSt BuT StEaDy AMD Radeon HD 6850 OverClocked to 1 Ghz !!! Blog : http://topgeartopspeed.wordpress.com/ ---------------------------------------------------- Never buy viewsonic products : http://tinyurl.com/ykwx4oa

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