New Extension Proposal: Gender

Hi everybody, I would suggest a new extension named Gender. The extension is supposed to find out gender by firstname. The working prototype can be downloaded from there: http://gender.rubay.de/gender-0.5.tar.bz2 . When downloaded use the file data/nam_dict.txt.bz2 as base (either unpacked or not). Here just a little code snippet: <?php $gender = new Gender("compress.bzip2:///path/to/nam_dict.txt.bz2"); $name = "Milene"; $country = Gender::FRANCE; $result = $gender->get($name, $country); switch($result) { case Gender::IS_FEMALE: case Gender::IS_MOSTLY_FEMALE: printf("The name %s is female in %s\n", $name, $country); break; case Gender::IS_MALE: case Gender::IS_MOSTLY_MALE: printf("The name %s is male in %s\n", $name, $country); break; default: print "I'm not sure, what gender your name is\n"; break; } The entension's code is based on the Joerg Michael's program gender (and he's data). On my average statistical mashine it attains to find a name in about 0.2 seconds if compressed and in 0.05 seconds if uncompressed. I plan to add database support in later releases. I hope to increase this characteristics in future adding database support for data. Regards Anatoliy