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Date   2010-07-08: lid v3.1.0 identifies Mandarin (Chinese)

lid v3.1.0 now supports Mandarin (Chinese) in both simplified and traditional variants. Besides the popular Unicode encodings, the frequently used charsets Big5 and GB2312 can be identified.

Date   2010-06-18: lid v3.0.0 thread-safe

lid v3.0.0 is thread-safe and reentrant and can therefore easily be deployed in modern, threaded applications. Besides that the language and character encoding identification algorithms have been optimized even further resulting in speed-ups of up to 100%.

The set of supported systems has been extended to cover not only Debian GNU/Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD, but Windows (32/64-bit) and Ubuntu GNU/Linux 10.04 (LTS), too.

Date   2010-03-01: lid v2.1.0 released

lid v2.1.0 covers two more languages, Russian and Ukrainian, and a set of related transliterations. Additionally processing speed on large inputs has been improved in combination with an increased memory efficiency.

Date   2009-12-07: lid available for FreeBSD 7 and 8

Due to popular demand, lid is now available for FreeBSD 7 and 8 on x86/IA-32, too.

Date   2009-10-01: lid v2.0.2 released

The new version covers all 23 official EU languages and provides an increased detection rate for these languages as well as for character encodings.