From: Eero Saynatkari <ruby-forum-reg@...>
Date: 2005-12-15T06:55:03+09:00
Subject: Re: English Ruby Home as a second class citizen

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

You could split the strings into 150-char sections and loop over
them sending a new request for each. A Google translation might
not have such limits (quality of translation notwithstanding).

> Jacob Fugal


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