From: Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...>
Date: 2005-12-15T06:21:02+09:00
Subject: Re: English Ruby Home as a second class citizen

On 12/14/05, Jacob Fugal <lukfugl@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/14/05, James Britt <james_b@neurogami.com> wrote:
> > cap wrote:
> > > I use
> > >
> > > http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en
> > >
> > > to guess what did they say
> >
> > Thanks.  I can use that, or Alta Vista's Babel.
> >
> > What I could use is a tool that takes the Japanese RDF feed, runs it
> > though a translator, and emits a new feed, to which I can subscribe.
> >
> > Hmm ...
>
> I've got a framework running at "http://jacob.fugal.net/era/" (ERA =
> English Ruby Annoucements). The only portion lacking is the
> translation. I couldn't find a web service that does japanese to
> english and I didn't want to do screenscraping. If you can point me at
> an appropriate webservice or write your own bit of screen scraping
> code, I'll plug it in and you've got your feed! :)

Does this lame little snippet help? Heh.  Unfortunately, babelfish is
limited to 150 words.
Also, ruby-lang.org/ja uses EUC encoding, so if you're grabbing it
directly, rather than in Unicode form, you'll want $KCODE="E"

#jp.rb
require 'open-uri'
require 'cgi'
$KCODE="u"
exit unless ARGV[0]
input = CGI.escape(ARGV[0])
trans = URI("http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr?doit=done&intl=1&tt=urltext&trtext=#{input}&lp=ja_en&btnTrTxt=Translate").read
output = trans[/<div style=padding:10px;>(.*)<\/div>/, 1]
puts output