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peterkahl/charset-from-string
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Identifies predominant script (character set, language) in a string.

v3.1(5y ago)55.4k1Apache-2.0PHP >=5.3.0

Since May 10Compare

[ Source](https://github.com/peterkahl/charset-from-string)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/peterkahl/charset-from-string)[ Docs](https://github.com/peterkahl/charset-from-string)[ RSS](/packages/peterkahl-charset-from-string/feed)WikiDiscussions Synced 1mo ago

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###  Health Score

32

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LowBetter than 71% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity22

Limited adoption so far

Community5

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity66

Established project with proven stability

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 ~98 days

Recently: every ~303 days

Total

14

Last Release

2006d ago

Major Versions

v0.6.1 → v1.02017-06-04

v1.0 → v2.02017-06-04

v2.2.2 → v3.02020-10-20

### Community

Maintainers

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Tags

i18nmultilinguallanguage detection

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