Re: Seeking help with a Perl module for translating languages

  • From: Jamal Mazrui <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:33:58 -0400 (EDT)

Thanks for the info.  I'm looking for a programmatic way of doing a
translation, that is, a way that a program I write can control the UI
rather than depending on the UI of a web page or other desktop program.
Do you know of something that meets this criteria?

Jamal
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008,
Demetry Yousifidou wrote:

> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:31:26 +0200
> From: Demetry Yousifidou <demetry.yousifidou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Seeking help with a Perl module for translating languages
>
> Hi Jamal, try the translator from Google.com -> Language Tools or the
> web and the program from www.QuickDic.org.
> HTH.
>
> Demetry
>
> On 10/14/2008 11:23 PM, Jamal Mazrui  wrote:
> > With Perl 5.8, I am trying to use the module WWW::Search::Translator,
> > which programmatically translates text between different natural languages
> > using babel.altavista.com.
> >
> > When I run the sample code in the documentation, I get an error about a
> > missing param function.  After web searches, I found that the CGI module
> > includes a function by that name, but using that module as well produced
> > another error message instead.
> >
> > Can anyone help?  Below is the error message, followed by the code.
> >
> > Jamal
> >
> > Undefined subroutine &main::param called at TranLang.pl line 2.
> >
> >
> >   use WWW::Search;
> >   %opts = (
> >   lp => param(en_de),
> >   );
> >    $query = "a whole bunch of english text to be translated to german";
> >    my $search = new WWW::Search('Translator');
> >    $search->native_query(WWW::Search::escape_query($query),\%opts);
> >   while (my $result = $search->next_result())
> >     {
> >     $p = $result->raw;
> >     print "$p";
> >     }
> >
> >
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