Detects the language of the provided text using the Compact Language Detector (CLD).
Syntax
browser.i18n.detectLanguage(
text, // string
function(result) {...} // function
)
Parameters
textstring. User input string to be translated.callbackfunction. The function is passed the following arguments:-
resultobject.LanguageDetectionResultobject. If the language could not be determined this will beundefined.
Additional objects
result
LanguageDetectionResult object containing two properties:
isReliableboolean. Whether the language was detected reliably.languagesarrayofobject. Array of detectedLanguage.
languages
DetectedLanguage object containing two properties:
languagei18n.LanguageCode. The detected language.percentageinteger. The percentage of the input string that was in the detected language.
Browser compatibility
Examples
Acknowledgements
This API is based on Chromium's chrome.i18n API. This documentation is derived from i18n.json in the Chromium code.
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