[phpnode]

how does this compare in accuracy to chromium's Compact Language Detector?

https://code.google.com/p/chromium-compact-language-detector...

https://github.com/mzsanford/cld

[alexott]

From my experience, the CLD works pretty well in the most cases. But you need to take care for encoding detection...

[dbuxton]

Yes, but you presumably need to get that right in order to encode as UTF-8 and send off to a third-party API...