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brotherhood_of_LAN - 8:16 am on Nov 5, 2009 (gmt 0)
I've tried using a free script/method that uses trigrams, 3-letter sequences to best guess a language. It seems to be fairly effective. I've read somewhere that Google's AJAX language API [google.com] uses a similar method.
Experimenting with a language-detection software