Comment 19 for bug 303269

When I issued bug 359709 I had something else in mind, this bug, however, may be enhanced with those ideas too.

Here they are (more detailed. My fault not to did so earlier):

We could write code to automatically detect the language. I mean, in the absence of lang and xml:lang attributes - no other information is used besides the text itself.

There are several techniques that can be used - a simple one: count the letters frequencies in the text. There are lots of paper on this topic. You can search Google Scholar for "Automatic Language Detection" and see our options.

This feature can be used in Composer alone. Composer can automatically (with the user's consent) add the lang or xml:lang as appropriated. This is one of the reason I'd rather reopen bug 359709 so we can keep browser-specific features separated from editor-wide features. Should we?