Detect language from string in PHP

Question

In PHP, is there a way to detect the language of a string? Suppose the string is in UTF-8 format.

Answer 1

I've used the Text_LanguageDetect pear package with some reasonable results. It's dead simple to use, and it has a modest 52 language database. The downside is no detection of Eastern Asian languages.

require_once 'Text/LanguageDetect.php'; $l = new Text_LanguageDetect(); $result = $l->detect($text, 4); if (PEAR::isError($result)) {     echo $result->getMessage(); } else {     print_r($result); } 

results in:

Array (     [german] => 0.407037037037     [dutch] => 0.288065843621     [english] => 0.283333333333     [danish] => 0.234526748971 )