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TRANSLATE(1)          User Contributed Perl Documentation         TRANSLATE(1)

NAME

translate - translates a string via babelfish

SYNOPSIS

translate B<-f> I<country-code> B<-t> I<country-code> 'string'

DESCRIPTION

Translate will take a word or a string and translate to another language using babelfish.

OPTIONS

-f Language that we should translate from. You can use the following: en (English), fr (French), de (German), it (Italien), es (Spanish), pt (Portugeese). -t Language we should translate the word/string to. Same language codes as above. -h Displays the help screen.

CHANGELOG

March 2003: o Add MAN page o Fix new babelfish semantics June 2002: o Initial release

BUGS

Sometimes a translated string coming back from babelfish may contain special characters (e.g. accents etc on fx. french words) which causes the screen to garble up.

AUTHOR

Written by Michael L. Hostbaek <mich@freebsdcluster.org> 3rd Berkeley Distribution perl 5.006, patch 00 TRANSLATE(1)

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