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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
@theducks: I dont think wrapping span tags around single words is a good idea, that will create lots of markup bloat.
What is really needed is a language markup tool/plugin. You give it a list of dictionaries, then it goes through the book and matches words against all the dictionaries in the list. Every contiguous series of words matched to the same dictionary then get wrapped in span tag with the correct language.
That is basically how the language detect tool in word works, I imagine.
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I guess the only reason for the markup, is spell checking. A number of 'other' language words are in common usage in American literature (many have to do with eating
) and the spell check flags them as wrong in en-US...but they may also be spelled wrong in their original language, but without language sensitivity...