I don't have enough expertise to put it together, but I can provide help if needed.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 6:54 AM, Remco Barendse <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mailscanner@barendse.to">mailscanner@barendse.to</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Alex Neuman wrote:<br>
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How could you tell if the language was chinese, japanese or russian? From the codepages? What about UTF?<br>
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The character encoding would be one pointer, on the other hand, in <a href="http://translate.google.com" target="_blank">translate.google.com</a> you can select "Detect language" which works quite nicely for the languages i need (Japanese, Chinese and Russian).<br>
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To do it perfectly one could consider to including a list of common key words used in each language. Greetings are one, the salutations at the end are another, pretty much every non-spam e-mail will have that, and these are unique to a language. However this would be already thinking about a rock-solid Rolls Royce class plug-in.<br>
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I know building such a plugin that works on only one translation source is pretty thin but no other mail package has such a feature. I guess if the plugin will be ready enthusiasm and interest from the community will explode :) No idea however how google might react to it once you start to invoke a nice load on their translation servers :) My mail volume will be low, about 100 messages a day.<br>
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My experience with scripting, procmail, programming etc. is about as much as my available free time, 0,0 :)<br>
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Let me know if you have any possibility to put something like that together.<br>
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