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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"