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I'm looking for a library or technique to detect the input language of blocks of text provided by users. Online lookups (like Google translate) won't work for this task as I'm writing an app which must run offline.

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Here are two more n-gram-based gems you might want to try. They work offline.

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The first one gives me камон is English.
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I'm using CLD which I really like, succinct and easy to use. Give it a try.

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yes! i'm too but this version github.com/BanjoInc/cld2 - offline tool that works perfectly!
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For anyone interested, I've found http://rubygems.org/gems/kenwaln-whatlanguage, which is performing excellently.

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A quick demo of WhatLanguage in Ruby:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNqZ2cqOReo&list=UUJ_3fstMOH-g4yBxtvgAWkw&index=0&feature=plcp

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