MediumNLPnlp-103

Script Detection Heuristic

Problem

Return the dominant script of text by counting characters: 'latin' for a-z and A-Z, 'cyrillic' for U+0400-U+04FF, 'arabic' for U+0600-U+06FF, 'han' for U+4E00-U+9FFF, and 'digit' for decimal digits.

Return the category with the highest count, breaking ties by that same priority order, and 'other' when no scored character appears.

Hint

Check the code point ranges in ord(ch) and keep the first maximum.

Test cases

case 1

in: ["hello"]

expected: "latin"

case 2

in: ["Привет"]

expected: "cyrillic"

case 3

in: ["مرحبا"]

expected: "arabic"

case 4

in: ["你好"]

expected: "han"

case 5

in: ["12345"]

expected: "digit"

case 6

in: ["!!!"]

expected: "other"

Starter codePython

def detect_script(text):
    # Your code here
    pass

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