NAME

Lingua::Guess::Simple - Make a crude guess at the predominant language

VERSION

version 1.0

SYNOPSIS

$guess = Lingua::Guess::Simple->new;

$guess->analyse_string( 'some string or other' );

$guess->analyse_string( 'add some more data to the analysis' );

# return a short string of the likely language group
$lang = $guess->likely_language;

DESCRIPTION

Lingua::Guess::Simple is a module which analyses the characters in submitted strings and returns a crude guess as to the predominant language group in use based on code page.

METHODS

• analyse_string

  Analyses the provide string and updates the codepages counts for the characters therein.

• likely_language

  Returns the likely language group as a string. Currently this means one of the four values

  • ascii
  • euro
  • ru
  • han

COMPATIBILITY

• Lingua::Guess::Simple requires utf8 & Encode.

AUTHOR

Bernard Quatermass toolsmith@quatermass.co.uk

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2017 by Bernard Quatermass.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.