From: Shusaku Date: 2001-07-05T10:24:39+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:17263] Re: [:->] babelfish Japanese => English attempt Hi, --- I know this may be needless or boorish explanation for you. On Wed, 4 Jul 2001 16:27:11 +0900 "Bill Kelly" wrote: > Thought some others might find this a bit amusing (too.) I'd downloaded and installed > a nice math3d package by Yoshiyuki Kusano from RAA, and then, finding the documentation > in Japanese, recalled having seen a new English=>Japanese translation option on babelfish. > -- snip -- > > :-D You might know, but there are three kinds of character codes in Japan, which is JIS, Shift-JIS and EUC. So we can not read if improper code is selected to display. :-< This fact is also true for input to the translation software. Since they are totally different, you'll get garbage output if you couldn't find an acceptable code for the software, or use any code converting tool. -- Shusaku