Re: Spanish Language in VARPG

From: Buck <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: "CODE/400 Discussion &amp; Support" <code400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: code400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Spanish Language in VARPG
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:40:08 -0400

Bob O. wrote:
> That would work for the labels and buttons on the windows, but, they
> want the data pulled from the AS/400, iSeries, SystemI (you know what I
> mean) translated too. Like I said, all I could do was laugh.

Machine translation might remotely be possible if you created a mash-up
that funneled your iSeries data through (for example) the Google
translate tool. The concept is that you'd have a socket program that
talks to Google and performs the translation. Then you stuff the
translated data onto your display, dealing with the fact that a sentence
in English is never the same size as a sentence in Spanish. Of course,
machine translation is generally ludicrous, so the end results would not
be very good.

I'd be laughing too. There's no silver bullet for this.
--buck
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