how to determine what language a c# string is written in? is there any C#
method to take a string and return what language it is in? e.g. english,
hindi, spanish, etc.

System.Text.Encoding.CodePage will probably give you what you need. See:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.text.encodin ginfo.codepage.aspx

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Kevin Spencer
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Microsoft MVP

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> how to determine what language a c# string is written in? is there any C#
> method to take a string and return what language it is in? e.g. english,
> hindi, spanish, etc.
>