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Date   2010-08-27: Evaluation versions available

In compliance to customer requests, we now provide time limited evaluation versions of the lid language identifier and AutoUniConv. To obtain an evaluation version, please take the time to fill out our request form.

Date   2010-08-16: Affiliate Program Launched

Lingua-Systemes launched an affiliate program for resellers, consultants and software developers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Possibilities to extend the program to other (European) countries are currently evaluated. If you are interested in participating, do not hesitate to contact our sales representatives.

Date   2010-07-29: Lingua::Translit v0.18 supports GOST

Lingua::Translit v0.18 supports GOST 7.79:2000 transliterations for Russian, Ukrainian and Old Russian. These allow plain ASCII transliterations of Cyrillic letters.

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Date   2010-07-08: lid v3.1.0 identifies Mandarin (Chinese)

lid v3.1.0 now supports Mandarin (Chinese) in both simplified and traditional variants. Besides the popular Unicode encodings, the frequently used charsets Big5 and GB2312 can be identified.

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Date   2010-06-18: Lingua::Lid v0.02 released

Lingua::Lid provides thread-safety if compiled with a lid version of 3.0.0 or above.

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Date   2010-06-18: lid v3.0.0 thread-safe

lid v3.0.0 is thread-safe and reentrant and can therefore easily be deployed in modern, threaded applications. Besides that the language and character encoding identification algorithms have been optimized even further resulting in speed-ups of up to 100%.

The set of supported systems has been extended to cover not only Debian GNU/Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD, but Windows (32/64-bit) and Ubuntu GNU/Linux 10.04 (LTS), too.

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Date   2010-06-04: AutoUniConv v1.0.0 released

AutoUniConv is a C/C++ library that automatically converts text encoded in various charsets to Unicode.

It features robust and fast processing, support for a large set of input charsets, support for all common Unicode Transformation Formats and thread-safety. It is available for many Unix-like systems (Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD) as well as for Windows.

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Date   2010-03-08: lidc v1.1.0 released

Thanks to a new version of the underlying library lid, lidc v1.1.0 introduces support for two more languages: lidc may identify Russian and Ukrainian for a variety of character encodings.

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Date   2010-03-01: lid v2.1.0 released

lid v2.1.0 covers two more languages, Russian and Ukrainian, and a set of related transliterations. Additionally processing speed on large inputs has been improved in combination with an increased memory efficiency.

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Date   2010-01-20: Lingua::Translit v0.17 released

Added an Ukrainian transliteration ("DIN 1460 UKR").

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