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#ifndef __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XLanguageGuessing_idl__
#define __com_sun_star_linguistic2_XLanguageGuessing_idl__

#ifndef _COM_SUN_STAR_UNO_XINTERFACE_idl_
#include <com/sun/star/uno/XInterface.idl>
#endif
#ifndef _COM_SUN_STAR_LANG_LOCALE_idl_
#include <com/sun/star/lang/Locale.idl>
#endif
#ifndef _COM_SUN_STAR_LANG_ILLEGALARGUMENTEXCEPTION_IDL_
#include <com/sun/star/lang/IllegalArgumentException.idl>
#endif

module com { module sun { module star { module linguistic2 {

/** This interface allows to guess the language of a text

    <p> The current set of supported languages is:
    <ul>
        <li>af : Afrikaans</li>
        <li>am : Amharic</li>
        <li>ar : Arabic</li>
        <li>be : Belarus</li>
        <li>br : Breton</li>
        <li>bs : Bosnian</li>
        <li>ca : Catalan</li>
        <li>cs : Czech</li>
        <li>cy : Welsh</li>
        <li>da : Danish</li>
        <li>de : German</li>
        <li>drt : Drents</li>
        <li>el : Greek</li>
        <li>en : English</li>
        <li>eo : Esperanto</li>
        <li>es : Spanish</li>
        <li>et : Estonian</li>
        <li>eu : Basque</li>
        <li>fa : Farsi</li>
        <li>fi : Finnish</li>
        <li>fr : French</li>
        <li>fy : Frisian</li>
        <li>ga : Irish Gaelic</li>
        <li>gd : Scots Gaelic</li>
        <li>gv : Manx Gaelic</li>
        <li>he : Hebrew</li>
        <li>hi : Hindi</li>
        <li>hr : Croatian</li>
        <li>hu : Hungarian</li>
        <li>hy : Armenian</li>
        <li>id : Indonesian</li>
        <li>is : Icelandic</li>
        <li>it : Italian</li>
        <li>ja : Japanese</li>
        <li>ka : Georgian</li>
        <li>ko : Korean</li>
        <li>la : Latin</li>
        <li>lb : Luxembourgish (added with OOo 3.3)</li>
        <li>lt : Lithuanian</li>
        <li>lv : Latvian</li>
        <li>mr : Marathi</li>
        <li>ms : Malay</li>
        <li>ne : Nepali</li>
        <li>nl : Dutch</li>
        <li>nb : Norwegian (Bokmal)</li>
        <li>pl : Polish</li>
        <li>pt-PT : Portuguese (Portugal)</li>
        <li>qu : Quechua</li>
        <li>rm : Romansh</li>
        <li>ro : Romanian</li>
        <li>ru : Russian</li>
        <li>sa : Sanskrit</li>
        <li>sco : Scots</li>
        <li>sh : Serbian (written with latin characters)</li>
        <li>sk-SK : Slovak (written with latin characters)</li>
        <li>sl : Slovenian</li>
        <li>sq : Albanian</li>
        <li>sr : Serbian (written with cyrillic characters) (added with OOo 3.4)</li>
        <li>sv : Swedish</li>
        <li>sw : Swahili</li>
        <li>ta : Tamil</li>
        <li>th : Thai</li>
        <li>tl : Tagalog</li>
        <li>tr : Turkish</li>
        <li>uk : Ukrainian</li>
        <li>vi : Vietnamese</li>
        <li>yi : Yiddish</li>
        <li>zh-CN : Chinese (simplified)</li>
        <li>zh-TW : Chinese (traditional)</li>
    </ul>

    </p>

    @since OOo 2.2
 */
interface XLanguageGuessing
{
    //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
    /** determines the single most probable language of a sub-string.

        <p>Please note that because statistical analysis is part
        of the algorithm the the likelihood to get the correct
        result increases with the length of the sub-string.
        A word is much less likely guessed correctly compared to
        a sentence or even a whole paragraph.</p>

        <p>Also note that some languages are that 'close' to each other
        that it will be quite unlikely to find a difference in them,
        e.g. English (UK), English (IE) and English (AUS) and
        most liklely English (US) as well. And thus the result may
        be arbitrary.</p>

        @returns
            the locale for the language identified.
            If no language could be identified the locale will be empty.

        @param  aText
            all the text including the part that should checked.

        @param nStartPos
            specifies the starting index of the sub-string to be checked
            The value must met 0 <= nStartPos < (length of text - 1).

        @param nLen
            specifies the length of the sub-string to be checked.
            The value must met 0 <= nLen <= (length of text).

        @see    <type scope="com::sun::star::lang">Locale</type>
     */
    com::sun::star::lang::Locale    guessPrimaryLanguage(
            [in] string  aText,
            [in] long    nStartPos,
            [in] long    nLen )
        raises( com::sun::star::lang::IllegalArgumentException );

    //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
    /** allows to explicitly discard some languages from the set of
        languages possibly returned.

        <p>By default all languages are enabled.</p>
    */
    void disableLanguages(
            [in] sequence< com::sun::star::lang::Locale > aLanguages )
        raises( com::sun::star::lang::IllegalArgumentException );

    //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
    /** allows to explicitly re-enable some languages that got previously
        disabled.

        <p>By default all languages are enabled.</p>
    */
    void enableLanguages(
            [in] sequence< com::sun::star::lang::Locale > aLanguages )
        raises( com::sun::star::lang::IllegalArgumentException );

    //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
    /** returns a list of all supported languages.

        <p>This should be the same as the mathematical union of
        all enabled and disabled languages.</p>
    */
    sequence< com::sun::star::lang::Locale > getAvailableLanguages();

    //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
    /** returns the list of all enabled languages
    */
    sequence< com::sun::star::lang::Locale > getEnabledLanguages();

    //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
    /** returns the list of all disabled languages
    */
    sequence< com::sun::star::lang::Locale > getDisabledLanguages();

};

}; }; }; };

#endif