Qwq: There are problems with the common language statistics.

[Goodnameisfordoggy]

This is my plugin configuration:

- name: 编程语言统计
        if: ${{ success() || failure() }}
        uses: lowlighter/metrics@latest
        with:
          filename: metrics.plugin.languages.svg
          token: ${{ secrets.METRICS_TOKEN }}
          base: ""
          config_order: languages, notable, discussions, topics
          plugin_languages: yes
          plugin_languages_details: lines, bytes-size, percentage
          plugin_languages_sections: most-used
          plugin_languages_indepth: yes
          plugin_languages_limit: 6
          plugin_languages_threshold: 0%
          plugin_topics: yes
          plugin_topics_limit: 2
          plugin_topics_mode: icons
          plugin_notable: yes
          plugin_notable_indepth: yes
          plugin_discussions: yes
          output_action: write

There are a lot of Java code and other language codes in all of my repositories. Why aren't they displayed in the SVG image?

According to the above configuration, it should have displayed six languages, but in the picture, only four languages (Python, C, CSS, Lisp) are shown.

• I would like to know what the reason is and how to enable the display of six or more languages?
• And this plugin can also support the identification of which languages. Where can this information be found?

[prajesdas]

The reason your SVG image shows only four languages instead of six is likely due to the plugin counting only the languages that have significant code presence in your repository. Most GitHub language stats and badges use percentage thresholds; if a language contributes a very small portion of the code, it may be omitted from the display. For example, if Java or other languages have less than a few percent of the total code, they might not appear in the badge.

To enable the display of six or more languages:

1. Ensure each language has enough code in the repository to meet the display threshold.

2. Check your plugin settings: some badges allow configuring the count or max_languages parameter to increase the number of languages shown.

Regarding supported languages: the plugin usually relies on GitHub's language detection, which supports a wide range of languages. A complete list can be found in GitHub Linguist's repository: https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/master/lib/linguist/languages.yml

This file lists all recognized programming languages and the rules for detecting them.