28. A method in a computer system for transforming a sequence of source values representing text into a sequence of target values that characterizes the sequence of source values in a manner useful for n-gram analysis techniques, the method comprising the steps of: for each distinct source value occurring in the sequence of source values, identifying a single target value corresponding to the distinct source value, such that target value corresponds to one or more distinct source values and at least one target value corresponds to two or more distinct source values; for each occurrence of the distinct source value in the sequence of source values, writing the target value identified as corresponding to the distinct source value to a position in the sequence of target values corresponding to the position of the occurrence of the distinct source value in the sequence of source values; and subjecting the sequence of target values to an n-gram analysis technique in order to analyze the representation of text constituted by the sequence of source values.
28. A method in a computer system for transforming a sequence of source values representing text into a sequence of target values that characterizes the sequence of source values in a manner useful for n-gram analysis techniques, the method comprising the steps of: for each distinct source value occurring in the sequence of source values, identifying a single target value corresponding to the distinct source value, such that target value corresponds to one or more distinct source values and at least one target value corresponds to two or more distinct source values; for each occurrence of the distinct source value in the sequence of source values, writing the target value identified as corresponding to the distinct source value to a position in the sequence of target values corresponding to the position of the occurrence of the distinct source value in the sequence of source values; and subjecting the sequence of target values to an n-gram analysis technique in order to analyze the representation of text constituted by the sequence of source values. 29. The method of claim 28 wherein the subjecting step subjects the sequence of target values to an n-gram analyst technique in order to identify a language used in the representation of text constituted by the sequence of source values.