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Improve language detection
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Type: Enhancement
- Dominant language
- Python
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Description
Currently language detection is rudimentary and often causes incorrect interpretation of dates. See for example #567 and #575.
We need to improve how language detection works. Plugging-in an optional language detection library is an option.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading issues #567 and #575 to understand the date-interpretation failures described here. Then inspect the current language-detection implementation and its tests, if identified while investigating. Done means language detection is improved and the incorrect date interpretations from those examples are addressed.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- internationalization
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100