lidc is a command line application for Unix-like operating systems (Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD) that allows you to identify the language and character encoding of an input. Based on the lid library, it provides accurate identification results and high performance. However, lidc implements a significant amount of new features on top of those provided by lid, namely the parsing of common input formats. These include:

• HTML
• X-HTML
• XML
• Email (RFC 822)
• Email (RFC 2045-2049 - MIME)
• Email (RFC 2387)
• Email (RFC 3462)
• Email (RFC 1847)
• Plain text

lidc is currently under development and will be released in a few month. The complete set of supported formats will be published in lidc's software specification as soon as it will have been released.

Watch the following screencast to get a preview of the current state of development and find out more about the usage and capabilities of lidc.