Re: [PECL-DEV] PHP Extension -- feedback request

Cesar D. Rodas wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> In the fast few weeks I've been developing a brand new PHP Extension
> and I'd like a feedback about it, in order to request a PECL account.
> 
> The extension it's pretty simple, it implements a N-gram based text
> categorization [1] class, useful to detect languages of texts with a
> minimum supervision (it requires a simple learning from samples).
> 
> Currently the Extension, provides two classes:
> 
> - BaseTextCat: This class has few abstract methods, allowing
> developers override the default behavior of the library from the PHP
> userland.
> - TextCat: A ready-to-use class with standard behavior (saving the
> "knowledge" in flat files, treating texts as one character per byte).
> 
> The Extension it's hosted currently at Github,
> http://github.com/crodas/PHPTextCat

Looks cool.  Fill out the svn account request form at
http://us.php.net/svn-php.php and we will get you set up.

I did notice a few issues.  Most of your sample text has character
encoding issues.  And your Swedish sample text is actually Swahili.
Easy mistake to make.  Those Swahili-speaking swedes are everywhere.

-Rasmus