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This is all very helpful, but how do you spot English?
No diacritics, and generous use of apostrophes.
This is all very helpful, but how do you spot English?
Additional bonus: Korean uses lots of basic angles, squares, and lines and many Hangul have "three parts" eg. 한국어의 It's a beautifully simple writing system. You can go quite a long comment chain in Japanese without seeing の. I always tell people "look for lots of simple characters that can be written with only 2 or 3 lines mixed in between a bunch of really complex characters". 来週は学校に行きません For those who don't know Ja…
I would say the give away on Korean is that it has circles or ovals as part of the character.
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SwiftKey (Android keyboard) does an amazing job of this. I routinely switch between French and English, and usually by the end of the first word in the other language my autocorrect and suggestions are both in the right language.
AFAIK it uses Markov chains, so I think it just lumps all dictionaries together, and as soon as you write a couple of words, the probabilities for the following words will be in the proper language. It doesn't even need specific rules per language, it's all automatic.
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SwiftKey (Android keyboard) does an amazing job of this. I routinely switch between French and English, and usually by the end of the first word in the other language my autocorrect and suggestions are both in the right language.
AFAIK it uses Markov chains, so I think it just lumps all dictionaries together, and as soon as you write a couple of words, the probabilities for the following words will be in the proper language. It doesn't even need specific rules per language, it's all automatic.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
AFAIK it uses Markov chains, so I think it just lumps all dictionaries together, and as soon as you write a couple of words, the probabilities for the following words will be in the proper language. It doesn't even need specific rules per language, it's all automatic.
That is my guess as well but, whatever it is, it works marvelously. Many times, I write a significant portion of my message just through suggestions.
That goes both ways (e.g. Haakonsvern in Norway), so no you really can't tell it apart that way.
There is a character only used in Taiwanese, not Chinese: 互 By that, I mean the Taiwanese language, which is not the same as Mandarin Chinese. Both languages are used in Taiwan, although Mandarin is the official language of the (outgoing) KMT government. Taiwan number 1 ;-)