Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 121 Location: Richmond, VA
Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 5:28 am Post subject:
Another one of the many simple services I am working on. Hopefully soon you'll see a nice list on Botwork.com.
Send it text to be translated, the language being translated from and the language being translated to. The service will return the translated text (or error if you sent something wrong) in plain text.
usage:
Quote:
http://www.thomashp.com/bw/translate.cgi?text=[text to be translated]&from=[from what language]&to=[to what language]
Joined: 25 May 2004 Posts: 551 Location: Amsterdam, Holland
Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 11:06 am Post subject:
I just typed something in and it gave me a list:
Quote:
Could not translate: Cannot translate from "English" to "Bluuuuuh". Available languages are: Chinese-simp, Chinese-trad, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish,
It's using Babelfish, so any languages it can translate this service can translate.
I used to use Babelfish (AltaVista's, anyway). Doesn't it give you problems with foreign characters? I remember it would return weird symbols where like, Spanish letters should be, and I had to program in filters. But I just switched to Google's translator, it doesn't have as many languages but it worked better with symbols. _________________ Current Site (2008) http://www.cuvou.com/
Google and Babelfish return the same results, as I found when "doing" my french homework _________________ ~ Josh
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Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 121 Location: Richmond, VA
Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:15 am Post subject:
darkmonkey is right, google's and babelfish's results are suspiciously the same. Any problem you might have had with Foreign characters is probably due to incorrect encoding. This script outputs UTF8 encoding which will handle any foreign characters you send (hopefully, this hasn't be extensively tested). Please let me know if you find any encoding issues.
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