This has been gone over before ( see "are there any alternatives to textcat?")
Summary: textcat is old (doesn't support utf8), unsupported and doesn't have a large corpus of language data to base decisions on. -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +1 408 481 8171 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1