Jim and Octavian, When you get a chance, I'm still interested in more info on your solutions, including how to get the needed modules. After updating to the latest build of Perl 5.8, I did find a module that uses the Google translation service. The code below translates the English "Hello world" into the French "Bonjour le monde." Jamal use strict; use warnings; use WebService::Google::Language; my $service = WebService::Google::Language->new( 'referer' => 'http://example.com/', 'src' => 'en', 'dest' => 'fr', ); my $Text = 'Hello world'; my $result = $service->translate($Text); if ($result->error) { printf "Error code: %s\n", $result->code; printf "Message: %s\n", $result->message; } else { printf "Translation: %s\n", $result->translation; } __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind