Re: babelgnus

[Eric Marsden <emarsden@mail.dotcom.fr>]

>>>>> "larsi" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

  larsi> I've now added it to Gnus. Shouldn't babel.el be distributed
  larsi> with Emacs? Eric, d'you wanna sign it over to the FSF, and
  larsi> then I can ask RMS whether he wants it in there? And Steve?
  larsi> Martin? Hrvoje? Include it in XEmacs, perhaps? It's sehr
  larsi> (sorry, I mean "trés") useful.

Sicher wolltest du «très» sondern «trés» sagen.

Since writing babel.el I have found out that Systrans (the company
which developed the translation technology used at Babelfish) allow
web access to their motor at www.systransoft.com, without the annoying
cutoff after a few hundred characters at Babelfish. There is also a
competing motor called InterTran at www.tranexp.com, which can
translate between any combination of 25 languages (including Welsh!),
though the results look worse than with Systrans.

So I am planning to rewrite babel.el to allow access to these
alternative servers. Not today though, I have a Master's thesis due
tomorrow :-)

As to eventual bundling with emacs: I think it would be useful to
distribute with XEmacs, which comes with Emacs/w3. I doubt RMS will
want to include it in Emacs, because of the w3 dependency. 

-- 
Eric Marsden
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