On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 09:26:24PM +0000, Dave Fawthrop wrote:
IMO with the advent of huge memory in even the entry level computers, All tests should be in the one program, and the different language versions should be handled by simple switches/radio buttons, as with the various sorts of angle brackets ATM. OK the switches will inevitably become complex and difficult.
You're right, of course. I _think_ you might even go one better. I've used the occurrence of 50 instances of something recognizable as the English word "the" as an indicator that a file is (at least partly) in English, and a high number of certain types of characters to suggest that the file is in ISO-8859 or UTF-8, and a high number of strings within <> to indicate some flavor of *ML. I suspect that a similar technique might be useful in multilingual checkers in general, and if I wrote one I would certainly consider it. jim