Re: identify the language of a web page

[VK]

On Apr 12, 2:35 am, Dr J R Stockton <j...@merlyn.de mon.co.ukwrote:

In comp.lang.javas cript message <cda0f617-c9a0-4389-b79e-a02ad24852a6@k1
0g2000prm.googl egroups.com>, Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:29:01,
"us...@yahoo.co m" <us...@yahoo.co mposted:
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Suppose I need to classify 10000 web pages based on their languages.
What should I look for to determine the language of each web page? Any
advice is welcome.

>
Consider <URL:http://www.merlyn.demo n.co.uk/zel-82px.htmand siblings.

<OT>
more for ciwah, so OT, but still:
is there language code for multilanguage document, like lang="multi"
or something?
</OT>

[Joost Diepenmaat]

Re: identify the language of a web page

VK <schools_ring@y ahoo.comwrites:

<OT>
more for ciwah, so OT, but still:
is there language code for multilanguage document, like lang="multi"
or something?
</OT>

All (or most, I'm not sure, pretty much all though) tags can have a lang
attribute, so the "multi-languageness" is built-in already.

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/dirlang.html#adef-lang

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