>> 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




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