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lasserafn/php-string-script-language
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Detect language/encoding of a string in PHP

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Determine Language Script of Strings
====================================

[](#determine-language-script-of-strings)

Detect if a string contains different language scripts with a simple API.

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Installation
------------

[](#installation)

You just require using composer and you're good to go!

```
composer require lasserafn/php-string-script-language
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

As with installation, usage is quite simple:

```
use LasseRafn\StringScript;

StringScript::isThai('Hello world.'); // false
StringScript::isChinese('你好世界。'); // true
```

All methods return a boolean value.

Supported scripts
-----------------

[](#supported-scripts)

- Common
- Arabic
- Armenian
- Bengali
- Bopomofo
- Braille
- Buhid
- Canadian Aboriginal
- Cherokee
- Cyrillic
- Devanagari
- Ethiopic
- Georgian
- Greek
- Gujarati
- Gurmukhi
- Han
- Hangul
- Hanunoo
- Hebrew
- Hiragana
- Inherited
- Kannada
- Katakana
- Khmer
- Lao
- Latin
- Limbu
- Malayalam
- Mongolian
- Myanmar
- Ogham
- Oriya
- Runic
- Sinhala
- Syriac
- Tagalog
- Tagbanwa
- TaiLe
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Thaana
- Thai
- Tibetan
- Yi
- Chinese (Helper for Han)
- Japanese (Helper for Hiragana or Katakana)

All methods
-----------

[](#all-methods)

```
StringScript::isCommon($string);
```

```
StringScript::isArabic($string);
```

```
StringScript::isArmenian($string);
```

```
StringScript::isBengali($string);
```

```
StringScript::isBopomofo($string);
```

```
StringScript::isBraille($string);
```

```
StringScript::isBuhid($string);
```

```
StringScript::isCanadian_Aboriginal($string);
```

```
StringScript::isCherokee($string);
```

```
StringScript::isCyrillic($string);
```

```
StringScript::isDevanagari($string);
```

```
StringScript::isEthiopic($string);
```

```
StringScript::isGeorgian($string);
```

```
StringScript::isGreek($string);
```

```
StringScript::isGujarati($string);
```

```
StringScript::isGurmukhi($string);
```

```
StringScript::isHan($string);
```

```
StringScript::isHangul($string);
```

```
StringScript::isHanunoo($string);
```

```
StringScript::isHebrew($string);
```

```
StringScript::isHiragana($string);
```

```
StringScript::isInherited($string);
```

```
StringScript::isKannada($string);
```

```
StringScript::isKatakana($string);
```

```
StringScript::isKhmer($string);
```

```
StringScript::isLao($string);
```

```
StringScript::isLatin($string);
```

```
StringScript::isLimbu($string);
```

```
StringScript::isMalayalam($string);
```

```
StringScript::isMongolian($string);
```

```
StringScript::isMyanmar($string);
```

```
StringScript::isOgham($string);
```

```
StringScript::isOriya($string);
```

```
StringScript::isRunic($string);
```

```
StringScript::isSinhala($string);
```

```
StringScript::isSyriac($string);
```

```
StringScript::isTagalog($string);
```

```
StringScript::isTagbanwa($string);
```

```
StringScript::isTaiLe($string);
```

```
StringScript::isTamil($string);
```

```
StringScript::isTelugu($string);
```

```
StringScript::isThaana($string);
```

```
StringScript::isThai($string);
```

```
StringScript::isTibetan($string);
```

```
StringScript::isYi($string);
```

```
StringScript::isChinese($string);
```

```
StringScript::isJapanese($string);
```

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

- PHP 5.6, 7.0 or 7.1

###  Health Score

43

—

FairBetter than 91% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity51

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community15

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity69

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 95.2% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~707 days

Total

4

Last Release

1028d ago

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