> I need to write (PHP) code to detect the language of a given block of > text.
Your proposed approach is very simplistic and probably won't be extensible if it works at all. Usually a statistical approach is taken using groups of characters. In any case, ICU has this. See http://icu-project.org/userguide/charsetDetection.html It has both charset and language detection. This is also available via Win32 and .NET APIs in case that helps at all. If you roll your own you might want to be aware that there are a lot of patents in this area. =Ed -- PHP Unicode & I18N Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
