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lidc is a command line application that detects language and character encoding of textual input in a variety of formats.

lidc

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2010-03-08: lidc v1.1.0 released

Thanks to a new version of the underlying library lid, lidc v1.1.0 introduces support for two more languages: lidc may identify Russian and Ukrainian for a variety of character encodings.

2009-12-15: lidc v1.0.1 released

lidc v1.0.1 allows to detect language and character encoding of textual input from a variety of formats (Email, XML, HTML, ...). It is provided for Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD.