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From: Jamal Mazrui <[email protected]
Subject: TranLang 2.0 released - translate between languages via
the Microsoftweb service
Date sent: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:19:06 -0500
Now available at
http://EmpowermentZone.com/TranLang.zip
TranLang was originally released in 2009. Version 2.0 now
switches from
use of the Perl language and the Google API to C# and the
Microsoft API,
since the free Google API was discontinued. Thanks go to Rick
USA for
sample code demonstrating the Microsoft Translator API. The
program now
requires the .NET Framework 4.0 to be installed (a free download
from
microsoft.com if not already present on the computer). The updae
also
adds console-mode input and output as an alternative to
file-based
processing.
Documentation is as follows:
TranLang
Version 2.0
February 22, 2012
Copyright 2008 - 2012 by Jamal Mazrui
GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
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Contents
Description
Operation
Change Log
Development Notes
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Description
TranLang is a free, open source program for Translating or
detecting
Languages via the Microsoft API. The executable, TranLang.exe,
is a
console-mode utility that may either be operated manually at a
command
prompt, or be called by other programs to perform translation
tasks.
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Operation
Unzip the distribution archive, TranLang.zip, into a directory,
e.g., into
C:\TranLang
Then run the executable, TranLang.exe, either from that directory
or by
specifying its path. Running TranLang.exe with no parameters
will print
a help message to the console screen.
To translate between languages, there are four possible
parameters
specifying the type and content of source and target languages.
The
full syntax is
TranLang.exe SourceLanguage SourceFile TargetLanguage TargetFile
SourceFile contains the text to be translated, which has an upper
limit
of about 1000 characters. TargetFile contains the result, if
successful.
To detect an unknown language, the syntax is
TranLang.exe SourceFile TargetFile
SourceFile contains the text of the unknown language. TargetFile
contains the language detected.
More syntax options are as follows:
To translate text from a source to target language
TranLang.exe SourceLanguage SourceFile TargetLanguage TargetFile
To do the same except detect and omit the SourceLanguage
TranLang.exe SourceFile TargetLanguage TargetFile
To detect and report the SourceLanguage
TranLang.exe SourceFile TargetFile
To report a list of about 40 available languages and their codes
TranLang.exe TargetFile
The program assumes UTF-8 encoding for the input or output file.
To
work with console- rather than file-based input and output,
replace the
name of SourceFile with actual SourceText, and omit the
TargetFile
parameter. For example,
TranLang.exe "Hello world"
will report the language detected to the console as
English = en
or
TranLang.exe "Hello world" fr
will report the French translation to the console as
Salut tout le monde
Note that if a space is contained in a command-line parameter, it
should
be enclosed in quotes. Also note that a language may be
specified
either by its name or two-letter abbreviation, e.g., either
English or
en, and that capitalization of the language does not matter.
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Development Notes
The latest version of TranLang is available at
http://EmpowermentZone.com/TranLang.zip
This documentation is also directly available online at
http://EmpowermentZone.com/TranLang.htm
Source code is available in the files TranLang.cs and Private.cs.
To
recompile a working version of the program, one must modify
Private.cs
so that it contains a valid app ID, which may be freely obtained
from
http://MicrosoftTranslator.com
I welcome feedback, which helps TranLang improve over time. When
reporting a problem, the more specifics the better, including
steps to
replicate it, if possible.
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End of Document
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