// A rough guess at the language a post is written in, cheap enough to run // on every post of a public feed. Script first (a post in Han or Arabic // letters is not English), then, among the Latin-script languages the app // speaks, a handful of function words each. Short or ambiguous text is // "unknown", and unknown is never held against a post. const SCRIPTS = [ ['latin', /[A-Za-zÀ-ɏḀ-ỿ]/g], ['cyrillic', /[Ѐ-ӿ]/g], ['arabic', /[؀-ۿݐ-ݿ]/g], ['devanagari', /[ऀ-ॿ]/g], ['bengali', /[ঀ-৿]/g], ['tamil', /[஀-௿]/g], ['telugu', /[ఀ-౿]/g], ['kana', /[぀-ヿ]/g], ['han', /[一-鿿㐀-䶿]/g], ['hangul', /[가-힯ᄀ-ᇿ]/g], ]; export const LANG_SCRIPT = { en: 'latin', es: 'latin', fr: 'latin', de: 'latin', pt: 'latin', id: 'latin', sw: 'latin', tr: 'latin', vi: 'latin', ru: 'cyrillic', ar: 'arabic', ur: 'arabic', hi: 'devanagari', mr: 'devanagari', bn: 'bengali', ta: 'tamil', te: 'telugu', ja: 'kana', ko: 'hangul', zh: 'han', // not app languages, but languages people read posts in (a translation target) it: 'latin', nl: 'latin', pl: 'latin', }; const STOP = { en: 'the and is to of in that it for you with this on are be have not was but they'.split(' '), es: 'el la de que y en los es un una por con para las del se no como más pero'.split(' '), fr: 'le la les de des et est un une pour que qui dans pas sur avec ce il nous vous'.split(' '), de: 'der die und das ist nicht ein eine ich zu mit den auf für sich dem des auch wir'.split(' '), pt: 'o a de que e do da em um uma para com não os as se mais por isso você'.split(' '), id: 'yang dan di ini itu dengan untuk tidak dari ada saya akan ke juga bisa kita sudah atau kalau aku'.split(' '), tr: 've bir bu için ile de da çok ne gibi daha ama var ben sen mi değil kadar her olan'.split(' '), vi: 'và của là có không được một trong cho những này với các để người đã tôi khi cũng như'.split(' '), sw: 'na ya wa kwa ni za la katika hii kuwa kama hata lakini sana yake wote sasa tu huo hapa'.split(' '), it: 'il di che è e la un una per non sono con del della gli anche ma questo mi più nel'.split(' '), nl: 'de het een en van is dat niet op te zijn met voor ik je die maar ook wat'.split(' '), pl: 'i w nie na się z to że jest do co jak ale tak o po czy już'.split(' '), }; const STOPSETS = Object.fromEntries(Object.entries(STOP).map(([k, v]) => [k, new Set(v)])); // The text a reader actually reads: no links, no nostr references, no tags. export const proseOf = (text) => String(text || '') .replace(/https?:\/\/\S+/g, ' ').replace(/nostr:[a-z0-9]+/gi, ' ').replace(/#[\p{L}\p{N}_]+/gu, ' '); export function scriptOf(text, min = 3) { let best = null, bestN = 0, total = 0; for (const [name, re] of SCRIPTS) { const n = (text.match(re) || []).length; total += n; if (n > bestN) { best = name; bestN = n; } } return total < min ? null : best; } // A language code from the app's list, or null when it cannot tell. export function guessLang(text) { const prose = proseOf(text); const script = scriptOf(prose); if (!script) return null; if (script === 'kana') return 'ja'; if (script === 'han') return 'zh'; if (script !== 'latin') { const langs = Object.entries(LANG_SCRIPT).filter(([, s]) => s === script).map(([l]) => l); return langs.length === 1 ? langs[0] : null; // ar/ur, hi/mr share a script: unknown between them } const words = prose.toLowerCase().match(/[\p{L}']+/gu) || []; if (words.length < 4) return null; const score = {}; for (const w of words) for (const [l, set] of Object.entries(STOPSETS)) if (set.has(w)) score[l] = (score[l] || 0) + 1; const ranked = Object.entries(score).sort((a, b) => b[1] - a[1]); if (!ranked.length || ranked[0][1] < 2) return null; if (ranked[1] && ranked[0][1] < ranked[1][1] * 1.5) return null; return ranked[0][0]; } // Does a post read in this language, as far as we can tell? Unknown passes; // a wrong script or a clear other language fails. export function inLanguage(text, lang) { const want = LANG_SCRIPT[lang]; if (!want) return true; const prose = proseOf(text); const script = scriptOf(prose); if (!script) return true; // nothing readable to judge (a picture post, an emoji) if (script !== want) return false; if (want === 'han' && lang === 'zh' && /[぀-ヿ]/.test(prose)) return false; // kana means Japanese const g = guessLang(prose); return g === null || g === lang; } // Machine output dressed as a post: JSON, a hash dump, a wall of symbols. export function isMachinePost(text) { const s = String(text || '').trim(); if (!s) return false; if (/^[\[{]/.test(s)) { try { JSON.parse(s); return true; } catch {} } const prose = proseOf(s).replace(/\s+/g, ''); if (prose.length < 24) return false; const letters = (prose.match(/\p{L}/gu) || []).length; return letters / prose.length < 0.4; }