looking for a quick way in for english-spanish translator

[Ryan Rix]

Hi,

Dictionary used depends on which way you want to translate, sorry
install dict-freedict-spa-eng
and use -d fd-spa-eng for spanish to english translations


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Thanks and best regards,
Ryan Rix
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On Sun November 9 2008 09:54:44 pm jdawg wrote:
> Ryan Rix wrote:
> > I'm not sure if it's been put in but what about dictd?
> > aptitude install dict-freedict-eng-spa dict dictd
> > then from the command line:
> > dict -d fd-eng-spa [word]
> > and it will return the word you wanted, found in the spanish
> > dictionary...
>
> Ryan, thanks for the tip.
> but this doesn't work too well.
> are there any better databases anywhere?
> I did something simple, but the database is not very good.
>
> dict -d fd-spa-eng hola
> No definitions found for "hola", perhaps you mean:
> fd-spa-eng:  ola
>
> I can't even translate hola (hello)
> So I think I will do the other route.
>
> Jerry
>
> > --
> > Thanks and best regards,
> > Ryan Rix
> > TamsPalm - The PalmOS Blog
> >
> > And just when you thought you've seen it all, along comes a
> > Lambda four foot tall
> >
> > On Sun November 9 2008 09:29:03 pm jdawg wrote:
> >> Tuna wrote:
> >>>> Kurt Granroth wrote:
> >>>>> jdawg wrote:
> >>>>>> I am wanting to do a quick way to get
> >>>>>> english-spanish/spanish-english translation ultimately from the
> >>>>>> command line.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> As a first step, I tried this:
> >>>>>> wget 'http://translate.google.com/translate_t#es|en|pavimentado'
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> and I got this back:
> >>>>>> ---------- error -----------
> >>>>>> --08:49:36--  http://translate.google.com/translate_t
> >>>>>>            => `translate_t'
> >>>>>> Resolving translate.google.com... 74.125.95.113, 74.125.95.100,
> >>>>>> 74.125.95.101, ...
> >>>>>> Connecting to translate.google.com|74.125.95.113|:80... connected.
> >>>>>> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
> >>>>>> 08:49:41 ERROR 403: Forbidden.
> >>>>>> ---------- end of error ----------
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> So does anyone know a site where I can do this kind of thing. all
> >>>>>> the ones I have found so far, won't let you do it.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The output for that would be tricky to handle, even if it did work,
> >>>>> since that URL returns a fully formatted HTML page.  You would have
> >>>>> to do a lot of HTML parsing from the command line.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> A far better route would be to use the Google API.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlanguage/documentation/
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The docs they have there are all Javascript specific, but at the
> >>>>> core, it's all just JSON formatted requests and responses over HTTP. 
> >>>>> 'wget' and 'sed' should be able to make quick work of them.  If not,
> >>>>> maybe you could create a couple line perl wrapper?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Here's some example uses of the Google API (not the language one, but
> >>>>> the concept is identical) in other languages:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/documentation/index.html#fonje
> >>>>>_s nippets
> >>>>
> >>>> And, to follow up to myself, here is an example using curl and sed.
> >>>> wget works just as well... I used curl here only because it's one
> >>>> command line option easier to output to stdout:
> >>>>
> >>>> $ curl --silent
> >>>> "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=h
> >>>>el lo&langpair=en%7Ces"
> >>>>
> >>>> | sed -e 's,^.*translatedText":",,g' -e 's,"}.*$,,g'
> >>>>
> >>>> hola
> >>>>
> >>>> Kurt
> >>>
> >>> My friend wrote a python script that does all this. Some IRC'ers in
> >>> here will remember bobsalad, he uses this script now.
> >>>
> >>> http://www.coderprofile.com/networks/source-codes/521/google-translator
> >>>-s cript
> >>>
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> >>
> >> haven't had much to do with python yet (turned off by the block
> >> indentation thing), mostly a perl and bash guy.
> >> but I thank you for the url of above. this is what I really hoped for.
> >>
> >> something like this works just fine
> >> i will write my own bash script to translate all kinds of text using
> >> this technique.
> >>
> >> it works as expected in the other direction:
> >>
> >> curl --silent
> >> "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=pav
> >>ime ntada%20primario&langpair=es%7Cen"
> >>
> >> jerry
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