How to detect language in JavaScript?

Question

I know that in Wordpress we can do the following:

preg_match("/\p{Arabic}/u",
get_the_title())

How can we do this in JavaScript? Thanks in advance.

Do you mean language or script? Also, what kind of content do you want to do the detecting on? — Pekka, Aug 27 '10 at 08:47
[`\p` match generic character types](http://de.php.net/manual/en/regexp.reference.unicode.php), not exactly language — Gordon, Aug 27 '10 at 08:52

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:30

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You could do this via the Google Language API Detect language from string in PHP

edited May 23 '17 at 12:30

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answered Aug 27 '10 at 08:48

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I know how to detect language on php, I showed you that I know how! I want to do that on the client side " Java script " – Luci Aug 27 '10 at 08:52
@zeina: Did you see the answers in that link? There is an example that uses javascript (and AJAX) to detect the language. Javascript alone, as a language, does not have that capability. – Chetan S Aug 27 '10 at 09:14

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 27 '10 at 11:32

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Wouldn't it be easier to use qTranslate?

answered Aug 27 '10 at 11:32

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 04 '11 at 08:09

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Since you know how to detect your language in php then its just a simple matter of passing a value from your php code to your javascript code.

eg.

<?php $language = get_language_on_whatever_way_you_want(); ?>
<script type="text/javascript">
function alertMeTheLanguage() {
    var language = '<?php echo $language; ?>';
   alert('Your language is  <?php     echo $language; ?> ' );
}
</script>

answered Aug 04 '11 at 08:09

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Why do you use a the echo() twice instead of the JS variable `language`? – ComFreek Aug 29 '11 at 14:09

How to detect language in JavaScript?

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