Re: English text to Spanish

The AS/400 comes with the capability of having multi-language support, which 
some software products use, such as BPCS.  We do not use this, but my 
understanding is that it merely has fields & chunks of data that might show 
up on a screen or a report header or error message, written in a particular 
human language, it is not a translation tool.

Now there are language translation packages for use on the PC & I imagine 
that with ability to send 400 data to PC & vica versa, it might be practical 
to have some 400 output go to PC, be translated to language of choice, then 
go back to 400.

The problem as I understand it is that the state of art of PC language 
translation can be a bit brain dead.  Have you ever used a grammar checker on 
a PC word processor?  Does it seem like this software was developed by 
someone who knows the rules but not how they are applied in the real world?

I do not believe the state of art is such that you could have a clerk who 
knows only English, prepare some document on the 400, run it through 
translator software & send it off to foreign country & expect foreign 
language speaker to make heads or tails of it.

I think state of art is such that you have to have like boiler plate 
documents & parts of documents in which you have the English version & the 
Spanish version & some assurance they have identical meaning & someone 
reading one version says "Oh I want the other language version of this." But 
if they need to re-write their language version, then they need to send the 
result in their language to a professional human translator before the result 
in the other language gets sent out.

> Subj:  English text to Spanish
>  Date:    02/25/2001 12:29:19 PM Central Standard Time
>  From:    theresa.luebeck@springs.com
>  
>  Does anyone know of a software product out there that will convert a 
> string
>  of English text to Spanish on the AS/400?  We would like to be able to
>  print certain parts of documents in Spanish.  Thanks in advance.
>  
>  Terry Luebeck
>  Sr. Systems Engineer
>  Springs Window Fashions
>  608-828-4080

MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac)
AS/400 Data Manager & Programmer for BPCS 405 CD Rel-02 mixed mode (twinax 
interactive & batch) @ http://www.cen-elec.com Central Industries of 
Indiana--->Quality manufacturer of wire harnesses and electrical 
sub-assemblies - fax # 812-424-6838

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