>> I need to write (PHP) code to detect the language of a given block of >> text.
> In any case, ICU has this. See > > http://icu-project.org/userguide/charsetDetection.html > > It has both charset and language detection. Thanks Ed. Unless I've misunderstood, this is just doing charset detection, with language as a bonus when the charset implies it? If someone is actually using this and can confirm it can tell the difference between say English, French and German, all in UTF-8 encoding, please let me know. Thanks, Darren -- Darren Cook, Software Researcher/Developer http://dcook.org/mlsn/ (English-Japanese-German-Chinese-Arabic open source dictionary/semantic network) http://dcook.org/work/ (About me and my work) -- PHP Unicode & I18N Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php