Re: Spanish Language in VARPG

["Bob O." <otis_the_cat@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the responses.  I'll just tell them it isn't going to happen.


> From: Buck <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx>
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> 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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