Question How to properly identify different languages in a text chat Unity app?

Hello,

I'm developing a text chat and we need to give support for multiple languages, like Japanese, simplified and traditional Chinese, English, etc.

For example, if I wrote in English and someone else wrote in Simplified Chinese and another in Japanese, I should be able to see all 3 languages with their respective correct fonts.

I already have the fonts, I can change to the right font in the TextMesh editor. My question is: How can I properly identify the text language? (So I can use the right font)

The solution that I can see is to send the language used with every text message, but I would like to know with you guys if we have another possible solution to dynamically identify the language.

Thanks in advance.

 

There are a variety of different Libraries for this.. Some use server-communication, some do not.

Here are a few:

stratosblue/LanguageIdentification: .NET Port of Language Identification Library for langid-java. 移植自langid-java的语言识别库。 (github.com)
detectlanguage/detectlanguage-dotnet: Detect Language API .NET Client (github.com)
ivanakcheurov/ntextcat (github.com)


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