Detects the language of the provided text using the Compact Language Detector (CLD).
This is an asynchronous function that returns a Promise.
Syntax
var detectingLanguages = browser.i18n.detectLanguage( text // string )
Parameters
textstring. User input string to be translated.
Return value
A Promise that will be fulfilled with a result object. The result object has two properties:
isReliableboolean. Whether the language was detected reliably.languagesarrayof objects, each of which has two properties:-
languagei18n.LanguageCode. The detected language.percentageinteger. The percentage of the input string that was in the detected language.
Browser compatibility
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| Desktop | Mobile | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic support | Chrome Full support 47 | Edge No support No | Firefox Full support 47 | Opera Full support 34 | Firefox Android Full support 48 |
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Examples
function onLanguageDetected(langInfo) {
for (lang of langInfo.languages) {
console.log("Language is: " + lang.language);
console.log("Percentage is: " + lang.percentage);
}
}
var text = "L'homme est né libre, et partout il est dans les fers."
var detecting = browser.i18n.detectLanguage(text);
detecting.then(onLanguageDetected);
Acknowledgements
This API is based on Chromium's chrome.i18n API. This documentation is derived from i18n.json in the Chromium code.
Microsoft Edge compatibility data is supplied by Microsoft Corporation and is included here under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.
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