Lingua::Translate version 0.08 ============================== This module performs natural language translation using Babelfish (http://altavista.babelfish.com/) or Systran (http://www.systran.org/) If the test suite (`make test') fails, it may be because Babelfish is overloaded, down or unreachable. I'm in two minds as to whether or not this is a bug :-). Given that most users won't have a configured SysTran server available, the test script for that works in a different way and doesn't have the same problem. Note: this module hasn't been tested with the real version of the SysTrans translation software in a long time, it is quite possible that the software has changed in an incompatible way since this module was written. In particular, the server at the time assumed an ISO-8859-1 character encoding, so won't work with non-European languages. However, the babelfish server works fine. INSTALLATION To install this module, type the following: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install DEPENDENCIES This module requires these other modules and libraries: Core Functionality: Pod::Constants, 0.15 or later. Unicode::MapUTF8 Lingua::Translate::Babelfish backend: LWP::UserAgent Lingua::Translate::SysTran backend: IO::Socket::INET (standard) The module will cope without Unicode::MapUTF8, but no attempt will be made to convert strings passed to and from the back end - the Babelfish back-end uses UTF-8, whereas the SysTran back-end uses ISO-8859-1. COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE Copyright (c) 2002, 2004, 2005, Sam Vilain. All rights reserved. This module is free software; you may use it under the same terms as Perl itself.