Lingua::Translate version 0.08
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This module performs natural language translation using Babelfish
(http://altavista.babelfish.com/) or Systran (http://www.systran.org/)

If the test suite (`make test') fails, it may be because Babelfish is
overloaded, down or unreachable.  I'm in two minds as to whether or
not this is a bug :-).  Given that most users won't have a configured
SysTran server available, the test script for that works in a
different way and doesn't have the same problem.

Note: this module hasn't been tested with the real version of the
SysTrans translation software in a long time, it is quite possible
that the software has changed in an incompatible way since this module
was written.  In particular, the server at the time assumed an
ISO-8859-1 character encoding, so won't work with non-European
languages.  However, the babelfish server works fine.

INSTALLATION

To install this module, type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

DEPENDENCIES

This module requires these other modules and libraries:

Core Functionality:
   Pod::Constants, 0.15 or later.
   Unicode::MapUTF8

Lingua::Translate::Babelfish backend:
   LWP::UserAgent

Lingua::Translate::SysTran backend:
   IO::Socket::INET (standard)

The module will cope without Unicode::MapUTF8, but no attempt will be
made to convert strings passed to and from the back end - the
Babelfish back-end uses UTF-8, whereas the SysTran back-end uses
ISO-8859-1.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (c) 2002, 2004, 2005, Sam Vilain.  All rights reserved.
This module is free software; you may use it under the same terms as
Perl itself.