I need to redundantly write C++ and C# programs to
(1) determine the input language (german, french, english...)
(2) determine changes in the input language (preferably a delegate rather
than polling!)

Can anyone guide me to the proper functions to call?
Thanks,
siegfried

There are no pre-existing functions for either item. In general you could
try to split the text into words, and look for occurrances of the most common
words in each language. Search for "the", "of", "a" and you likely have
English. Search for "der", "die", "das", "ob", "einen", and you likely have
German.

It won't be easy...


"Siegfried Heintze" wrote:

> I need to redundantly write C++ and C# programs to
> (1) determine the input language (german, french, english...)
> (2) determine changes in the input language (preferably a delegate rather
> than polling!)
>
> Can anyone guide me to the proper functions to call?
> Thanks,
> siegfried
>

If I run the program intl.cpl, I can change the keyboard type.

How is intl.cpl implemented?

How can I write a C# program to determine when someone has run intl.cpl and
changed the keyboard langauge?
Thanks,
Siegfried

"Family Tree Mike" wrote:

> There are no pre-existing functions for either item. In general you could
> try to split the text into words, and look for occurrances of the most common
> words in each language. Search for "the", "of", "a" and you likely have
> English. Search for "der", "die", "das", "ob", "einen", and you likely have
> German.
>
> It won't be easy...
>
>
> "Siegfried Heintze" wrote:
>
> > I need to redundantly write C++ and C# programs to
> > (1) determine the input language (german, french, english...)
> > (2) determine changes in the input language (preferably a delegate rather
> > than polling!)
> >
> > Can anyone guide me to the proper functions to call?
> > Thanks,
> > siegfried
> >

I found it: I need to intercept WM_SETTINGSCHANGE. There is a sample program
in .NET Internationalization by Smith-Ferrier.

Now I have another question: how can I change to a DVORAK keyboard and
detect that change?

Thanks
Siegfried

Family Tree Mike wrote:
> "Siegfried Heintze" wrote:
>> I need to redundantly write C++ and C# programs to
>> (1) determine the input language (german, french, english...)
>> (2) determine changes in the input language (preferably a delegate rather
>> than polling!)
> There are no pre-existing functions for either item. In general you
could
> try to split the text into words, and look for occurrances of the
most common
> words in each language. Search for "the", "of", "a" and you likely have
> English. Search for "der", "die", "das", "ob", "einen", and you
likely have
> German.
>
> It won't be easy...

Letter frequencies can also help.

Arne

Siegfried Heintze wrote:
> "Family Tree Mike" wrote:
>> "Siegfried Heintze" wrote:
>>> I need to redundantly write C++ and C# programs to
>>> (1) determine the input language (german, french, english...)
>>> (2) determine changes in the input language (preferably a delegate rather
>>> than polling!)
>>>
>>> Can anyone guide me to the proper functions to call?
>> There are no pre-existing functions for either item. In general you
could
>> try to split the text into words, and look for occurrances of the
most common
>> words in each language. Search for "the", "of", "a" and you likely
have
>> English. Search for "der", "die", "das", "ob", "einen", and you
likely have
>> German.
>>
>> It won't be easy...
> If I run the program intl.cpl, I can change the keyboard type.
>
> How is intl.cpl implemented?
>
> How can I write a C# program to determine when someone has run
intl.cpl and
> changed the keyboard langauge?

So you are not looking to detect what language the text written
is in but just detect the windows language setting ?

Arne