From: Jacob Fugal <lukfugl@...>
Date: 2005-12-15T06:47:08+09:00
Subject: Re: English Ruby Home as a second class citizen

On 12/14/05, Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

I tried integrating that, but the 150 char limit meant that most -- if
not all -- of the bodies couldn't be translated. Having translated
titles would be a slight improvement, but not enough. Thanks for the
direction though!

Jacob Fugal