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From: "Jon A. Lambert" <jlsysinc@ix.netcom.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 01:31:23 -5
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On 25 May 99,, Ben Greear wrote:
>
> There are several interesting things in this realease. First, I've
> added rudimentary hooks for multi-lingual capability. Check out the
> translations.spec and the say(...) method in commands.cc for some
> prototype code. This will allow a spanish speaker to see:
>
> Grock habla 'foo'
> and an English speaker to see:
> Grock says 'foo'
>
> Obviously I need to find someone fluent to translate :)
>
I have been using AltaVista's Babelfish quite a bit, since I read a lot
of foreign newspapers. I think it's up there with sliced bread. ;)
Languages which have a similar sentence structure to English work very
well. While others that use backwards sentences or dozens of genders
are more difficult to comprehend. Relatively to English that is. :P
They also have stand-alone retail versions. Perhaps one might integrate
such a product into a mud. I'm not sure about APIs or royalties and what
not.
<URL http://babelfish.altavista.com/>
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