Thinking over my initial reply above, I realized a few things:
  1. In order to get a really good and proper histogram over unicode text, you'd want to be able to see not only how many times each character occurs, but also which "charts" (which language/function subgroups of unicode characters) are represented in the data, and what their respective frequencies are.
  2. Getting a proper histogram of that sort involves a fair bit of drudgeful coding and looking up all the details about what the various "charts" really are (their names and the characters they contain); just telling someone "you should try doing that" is sort of infelicitous, bordering on rude.
  3. I've really been wanting to have just such a tool myself for some time now, and it's about time I got around to that.
So here it is: unichist -- count/summarize characters in data. (I've tested most of its functionality, but not all of it...)

In reply to Re: How to Identify a language by graff
in thread How to Identify a language by moshkod

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