How can I check language in EditText?

Question

I'm using 3 language(English, Korean, Japanese) in my app.

Is it possible to distinguish String the language in EditText?

It is **theoretically** possible (by scanning all the words of all languages to find a match with the EditText contents). But it would be an overkill. — Phantômaxx, Feb 20 '15 at 11:51

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:26

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A String or EditText doesn't contain information about the language, therefore you need a workaround.

Options:

Check the keyboard language.
Scan the String for code points in a specific range to identify Asian languages. It won't work if they share the same character set, for example english and german.
Implement your own solution.

edited May 23 '17 at 10:26

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answered Feb 20 '15 at 12:00

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