WWW::Babelfish, version .13 STATUS ====== This is BETA software; use at your own risk. Comments, bug reports, patches etc. are appreciated. DESCRIPTION =========== This module is a simple perl front-end to the Babelfish or Google 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. This version also contains preliminary support for the Google translation engine. INSTALLATION ============ 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 Patch to fix warning when source text doesn't start with whitespace. Peter Tirsek Patch to fix bug in whitespace handling at beginning of paragraph AND new Babelfish URL and format. Olivier Scherler Patch for subtle whitespace handling bug. Brett T Warden Patch for handling non-roman translations. Martin K. Sluka Patch to add languagepairs method. Eric R. Meyers Patch to fix corruption of main package space. Many many thanks also to Wolfgang Schlueschen and Daniel van Balen who simultaneously submitted patches for the new Babelfish URL and format. COPYRIGHT ========= Copyright (c) 1999-2005 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 durist@frii.com