Chat Language Filter Forever

Chat Language Filter Forever is a lightweight chat filter for World of Warcraft: Forever that lets you choose which language and writing-system groups stay visible in your chat.

Checked groups are shown. Unchecked groups are hidden.

Features

• Movable minimap button

• Left-click the minimap button to open settings

• Right-click to enable or disable the entire filter

• Individual visibility toggles for:

  • English

  • German

  • French

  • Spanish

  • Brazilian Portuguese

  • Russian / Cyrillic

  • Korean / Hangul

  • Chinese / Han

  • Japanese / Kana

  • Ambiguous Latin

  • Other writing systems

• Account-wide saved settings

• Hidden-message counter for the current session

• Quick presets: Show All, Latin Only, and Defaults

• Built-in /flf test <text> command for checking detection

• No external libraries or dependencies

Default settings

By default, normal Latin-script chat stays visible while Russian/Cyrillic, Korean, Chinese/Han, Japanese/Kana and other non-Latin writing systems are hidden.

You can change every group independently from the minimap settings panel.

How language detection works

Distinct writing systems such as Cyrillic, Hangul, Kana and Han can be detected directly from Unicode script ranges.

English, German, French, Spanish and Portuguese all share the Latin alphabet. Normal WoW chat does not provide a reliable real-world language tag for each player message, so these languages use conservative best-effort word/character detection. Short or unclear Latin text is assigned to Ambiguous Latin instead of being aggressively guessed.

Japanese text containing Hiragana or Katakana is detected as Japanese. Kanji-only Japanese cannot be reliably distinguished from Chinese Han text by script alone, so Kanji-only messages are handled by the Chinese/Han group.

Commands

• /flf — open settings

• /flf on — enable filtering

• /flf off — disable filtering

• /flf status — show current status

• /flf reset — restore default settings

• /flf test <text> — test how a message is detected

Alias: /foreverlanguage

Bug reports

If a message is detected incorrectly, please include:

• Your WoW Forever build

• Your game client language

• The chat channel

• The exact message, if possible

• The result of /flf test <message>

• Any Lua error text

License

Released under the MIT License.