How does Chrome know what language a page is in?
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Mar 15, 20269761 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I just opened a web page in Google Chrome, and it says "This page is in Japanese, would you like to translate it?". Asking for a translation would presumably send the contents to Google, but how is the language identified in the first place? Is this done locally, in the browser? Or does this also s…
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The Chrome browser can identify, or at least guess, the page language by looking at a number of on page factors: the http headers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_header_fields the character encoding used the encoding meta tag a statistical…
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