[accessiblelinux] Re: i18n and Storm Dragon's orca script
- From: Bill Cox <waywardgeek@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: accessiblelinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:28:30 -0500
Thanks for the script! I'm not sure how I'll use it, but I there has to be
lots of prank potential. It works great.
Bill
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:31 PM, jose vilmar estacio de souza <
vilmar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> I've a rudimentary python script that I use to translate text using google.
> It receives three parameters.
> From language, to language and text to be translated.
> example:
> gtr en pt 'this is a test'
> Translates 'this is a text' from english to portuguese, using google.
>
> I'm attaching the script to this message.
> Hope that helps.
>
>
> On 02/10/2010 04:16 PM, Storm Dragon wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Using google translate is a great idea. I will check in to it and hopefully
> have something soon. I am thinking that it should translate the page where
> selections for hotkeys are made too. I shouldn't be very hard, just a couple
> lines of additional code in the right place. For example, get the weather
> from yahoo, and if language is set to something other than english, have
> google translate the whole thing before sending it to braille and speech.
> The hard part, and indeed the part I am dreading, is creating the combo box
> for selecting the language. It's not difficult, just tetius lol. I'll get
> started in a few minutes.
> Storm
>
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>
> On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 01:48 -0800, Heliooos wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> as Vinux is getting more and more widely used I am thinking about i18n
> of the orca customization script.
>
> I think there won't be any problem to translate the comments in "" or
> marked with # to help non-english speaking users with it. But in case
> of weather it is a little bit complicated from my point of view.
>
> I found that it gets the information from yahoo, which unfortunately
> is only in english. Is there any way to get the info in other
> languages? Of course, the sentences in "" can be translated but not
> the variables (cloudy etc.).
>
> I have two ideas - maybe stupid, maybe not (I do not have experience
> with programming):
>
> 1) is it possible to set it to get the yahoo weather info via google
> translate? If yes, this could be the easiest way to get the weather
> info in various languages only by editing the translation parameters.
>
> 2) I assume that the weather info has some commonly used expressions,
> so the script could replace them with the translated ones from some
> list like:
>
> replace "cloudy" with "zataženo" (in Czech)
> - such solution would be more complicated but could be also relatively
> easily translated
>
> I posted it here, as many people visit this forum so thic could be
> also a small brainstorming.
>
> thanks
>
>
>
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