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Babelfish question (was Re: Cross posting in eu (was: Aaargh!)
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lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish
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Tue, 21 Dec 1999 06:03:56 GMT
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Jasper ,
At the following link (near the bottom), I have a link to Horst's page
via Babelfish. Have I done it legally? Is there a legal (or acceptable to
Babelfish) way to skip the form page entirely? I think you are saying there
is a way, but they don't like you to use it??
http://www114.pair.com/ig88/lego/ib60/index.htm
So this URL:
http://babelfish.altavista.com/cgi-bin/translate?doit=done&lp=en_de&urltext=
http://horst-lehner.mausnet.de/lego/
is not acceptable, but would work better than the URL that is currently
linked to in my page?
--
Have fun!
John
The Legos you've been dreaming of...
http://www114.pair.com/ig88/lego
my weird Lego site:
http://www114.pair.com/ig88/
Jasper Janssen wrote in message <385eb84a.2362020@lugnet.com>...
> On Mon, 20 Dec 1999 21:24:42 GMT, carbon60@bigfoot.com (Carbon 60)
> wrote:
> > In article <38b45681.435745144@lugnet.com>, jasper@janssen.dynip.com
> > says...
>
> [this was about the loc groups and unreadable things]
>
> > > At most a URL to babelfish or something like that.
> >
> > Maybe difficult when trying to read whole threads but it'll do for now.
>
> By the way, I did notice a babelfish option where you type in a URL,
> and it provides a translation.
>
> Witrh a bit of naughty reverse-engineering by me, the following URL
> will result in a german translation of the Lugnet main page.
>
> What with the characters in the lugnet url that are unescaped, I can't
> guarantee it working on all browsers, but it did on
> Communicator_4/win98.
>
> http://babelfish.altavista.com/cgi-bin/translate?doit=done&lp=en_de&urltext • =http://www.lugnet.com/
>
> It should be easy to provide a URL of that form, with the "lp" field
> user-selectable, at all loc groups.
>
> Whether that is a good idea or not is another thing.
>
>
> I don't think babelfish approves of this particular thing. However,
> they do approve of using the above url minus "doit=done", which when
> you click it provides a standard babelfish dialogue box with the url
> and language-to-language already filled in. See below this paragraph.
> This also obviates the need for a user-selectable lp field, as it is
> duplicated in the page you get when you use this - make a sensible
> default for all groups, and if another language happens to be the one
> that is used the users can change it on the BF page.
>
> http://babelfish.altavista.com/cgi-bin/translate?lp=en_de&urltext=http://ww • w.lugnet.com/
>
> The reason I think they approve is that they say in the FAQ you can
> use the URLs resulting form filling in the form there, which results
> in a URL of the latter form.
>
> In short, I think adding a URL, as of the second form, would be a
> splendid idea.
>
>
> > > Ah, but the French have been at war with the English far more than the
> > > Germans.
> >
> > More reasons not to communicate with them :-) But I'm only joking of
> > course!
>
> The british have also done much more trading with the french,
> historically, than with the germans. Usually this was at the same
> time.
>
> Jasper
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