WWW::Babelfish, version .13
STATUS
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This is BETA software; use at your own risk.
Comments, bug reports, patches etc. are appreciated.
DESCRIPTION
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This module is a simple perl front-end to the Babelfish, Google or Yahoo
translation servers. It's more fun than useful, but it might have a
place in IRC/talk clients or perhaps a translating web proxy. It makes
an attempt at breaking longer pieces of text up into chunks that
Babelfish can handle and then reassembling them.
INSTALLATION
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This module needs the following modules, all available from CPAN:
HTTP::Request (in the libwww-perl bundle)
LWP::UserAgent (in the libwww-perl bundle)
HTML::TokeParser (in the libwww-perl bundle)
IO::String
Encode
After unpacking the tar file, do the usual:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
There is embedded POD documentation in Babelfish.pm
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
================
Brian Raven <
[email protected]> Patch to fix warning when
source text doesn't start with
whitespace.
Peter Tirsek <
[email protected]> Patch to fix bug in whitespace
handling at beginning of
paragraph AND new Babelfish
URL and format.
Olivier Scherler <
[email protected]>
Patch for subtle whitespace
handling bug.
Brett T Warden <
[email protected]> Patch for handling non-roman
translations.
Martin K. Sluka <
[email protected]> Patch to add languagepairs
method.
Eric R. Meyers <
[email protected]> Patch to fix corruption of main
package space.
Jan Willamowius <
[email protected]> Patch to add Yahoo translation
service.
Many many thanks also to Wolfgang Schlueschen
<
[email protected]> and Daniel van Balen
<
[email protected]> who simultaneously submitted patches for the new
Babelfish URL and format.
COPYRIGHT
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Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Daniel J. Urist. All rights reserved. This
package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.
--
Daniel J. Urist
[email protected]
