[WEB4LIB] Re: Even stranger AltaVista result

[Bob Rasmussen]

On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Charles P. Hobbs wrote:

> It might default to English, until a sufficient number of foreign language
> words have been read. Often, I've seen multi-lingual pages, or pages in
> languages that AV doesn't know (for example, Arabic), reported as English.
> . .

Note that for software to be able to guess languages, it must know (or guess)
what character set the document is in. Many web pages to not even identify
this!

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