From: David Hedbor <david@hedbor.org>
Subject: Re: babelgnus
Date: 28 May 1999 01:10:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3btf5pqcb.fsf@nyarlathotep.hedbor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Steinar Bang's message of "28 May 1999 09:45:45 +0200"
Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:
> A couple of days ago I saw an announcement for a perl interface to the
> Babelfish
> http://babelfish.altavista.com/
>
> Wouldn't it be cool to have builtin Babelfish support in Gnus that
> could translate languages, either automagically or on demand...? :-)
>
> Hm... how about a message compose mode where you could write a message
> in one language and post it in another...?
>
> (Note! I know from experimentation how,... er... interesting the
> babelfish translatations actually are, but it would have been _kewl_,
> like...:-) )
If anyone makes something like this, I would use it for sure. People
tend to write me emails in spanish for example. The thought has
actually crossed my mind. It would probably be rather simple to make
an external program which Gnus can call, and possible to make it
internally in emacs as well.
--
[ Below is a random fortune, which is unrelated to the above message. ]
Deliberation, n.:
The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is
buttered on.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-05-28 8:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-05-28 7:45 babelgnus Steinar Bang
1999-05-28 8:10 ` David Hedbor [this message]
1999-05-28 13:41 ` babelgnus Eric Marsden
1999-05-28 19:25 ` babelgnus Per Abrahamsen
1999-05-28 20:29 ` babelgnus Stainless Steel Rat
1999-06-01 11:00 ` babelgnus Robert Bihlmeyer
1999-06-01 16:12 ` babelgnus Hans de Graaff
1999-06-02 11:26 ` babelgnus Robert Bihlmeyer
1999-06-02 16:19 ` babelgnus Jan Vroonhof
1999-06-13 0:45 ` babelgnus Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-06-13 16:57 ` babelgnus Eric Marsden
1999-06-14 0:59 ` babelgnus Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-06-14 2:50 ` babelgnus William M. Perry
1999-06-15 15:24 ` babelgnus Eric Marsden
1999-06-15 16:23 ` babelgnus Toni Drabik
1999-06-16 7:04 ` babelgnus Jaap-Henk Hoepman
[not found] ` <yaau2sc6asf.fsf@tyrfing.ifi.uio.no>
1999-06-13 7:03 ` babelgnus Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-06-13 13:28 ` babelgnus Karl Kleinpaste
1999-06-13 18:59 ` babelgnus Per Abrahamsen
1999-06-14 17:36 ` babelgnus Shaun Lipscombe
1999-06-14 0:57 ` babelgnus Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-06-13 4:49 ` babelgnus Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-06-13 17:38 ` babelgnus Eric Marsden
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