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On 01/26/2002 15:53, "Matthew Stuckwisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> I have one comment about the languages...er two.
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>> Some of the accuracy in the translating sometimes is off and second...
>
> This should be expected. No computer-based translation is perfect. One
> thing to do to try to get them more accurate is to try not use idioms, and
> not to use AOL-speak, eg, "u," "i," "ppl," etc, since those can't be
> translated. And now I'm going to quote from our lovely help file:
>
> The translation is not perfect
> The translation is not perfect (not accidently repeated)
> The translation is not perfect, but it should be sufficient to be
> understood 95% of the time.
I figured that and it seems better than some of the web based stuff out
there. I just thought it was funny that a simple sentence would get
translated wrong. He wrote "ja sage ich" and Fire translated it as "legend
I". I thought it was humorous. We were having a good laugh.
>> Bring on more languages... :)
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> Some of the back-end is there, but I believe there's some encoding issues
> at present. (if you look in the source I believe the defines are still
> there for some of the Asian langauges)
Cool. Can't wait.
-Ryan
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