Function

CFStringTokenizerCopyBestStringLanguage

Guesses a language of a given string and returns the guess as a BCP 47 string.

Declaration

CFStringRef CFStringTokenizerCopyBestStringLanguage(CFStringRef string, CFRange range);

Parameters

string

The string to test to identify the language.

range

The range of string to use for the test. If NULL, the first few hundred characters of the string are examined.

Return Value

A language in BCP 47 form, or NULL if the language in string could not be identified. Ownership follows the The Create Rule.

Discussion

The result is not guaranteed to be accurate. Typically, the function requires 200-400 characters to reliably guess the language of a string.

CFStringTokenizer recognizes the following languages:

ar (Arabic), bg (Bulgarian), cs (Czech), da (Danish), de (German), el (Greek), en (English), es (Spanish), fi (Finnish), fr (French), he (Hebrew), hr (Croatian), hu (Hungarian), is (Icelandic), it (Italian), ja (Japanese), ko (Korean), nb (Norwegian Bokmål), nl (Dutch), pl (Polish), pt (Portuguese), ro (Romanian), ru (Russian), sk (Slovak), sv (Swedish), th (Thai), tr (Turkish), uk (Ukrainian), zh-Hans (Simplified Chinese), zh-Hant (Traditional Chinese).