Language Translation.

I know the hard way to do this. I.E. storing strings for each avaliable launguage in the database or in the dll.

What I am wondering is if anyone knows of any Web Services or anything that preform this operation. Hopefully for free, but if not let me know anyway. Please.

I know about Babble Fish, and a few other option for help on doing it the hard way. What I am really hoping to hear about is a web service that will translate anything I pass it on the fly and pass back unicode or whatever. I don't care if I have to make them download the huge font sets from Microsoft.

Thanks for any help.

I'd really like to do this also. I've just told someone i'll look into the possibilty of translating their site on the fly into a number of languages but haven't come up with anything yet. I'll let you know if i do.

ok not sure how google would feel about this but...

VB Code:

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        Dim strUrl As String = "http://translate.google.com/translate_t"
        Dim strForm As String = ""
        Dim strTemp As String = ""
        Dim SourceLanguage, TargetLanguage As String
        Dim strValue As String
        Dim StartText As String = "<textarea name=q rows=5 cols=45 wrap=PHYSICAL>"
        Dim StartText2 As String = "<textarea name=q rows=5 cols=45 wrap=PHYSICAL readonly>"
        Dim EndText As String = "</textarea>"
        Dim translated As String = ""
 
        SourceLanguage = "en"
        TargetLanguage = "es"
        strValue = txtEng.Text.Trim
        strForm = "langpair=" + SourceLanguage + "|" + TargetLanguage
        strForm += "&text=" + strValue.Replace(" ", "+")
 
        Dim oRequest As WebRequest = WebRequest.Create(strUrl)
        oRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
        oRequest.Method = "POST"
 
        Dim oWriter As StreamWriter = New StreamWriter(oRequest.GetRequestStream())
        oWriter.Write(strForm)
        oWriter.Close()
 
        Dim oResponse As WebResponse = oRequest.GetResponse()
        strTemp = New StreamReader(oResponse.GetResponseStream(), Encoding.ASCII).ReadToEnd()
        oResponse.Close()
 
        Dim intStart As Integer = strTemp.IndexOf(StartText)
        If intStart < 1 Then
            intStart = strTemp.IndexOf(StartText2)
        End If
        Dim intEnd As Integer = strTemp.IndexOf(EndText)
 
        If intStart > 0 And intEnd > 0 Then
            strTemp = strTemp.Substring(intStart, intEnd - intStart)
            strTemp = strTemp.Replace(StartText, "")
            translated = strTemp.Replace(StartText2, "")
        End If
        lblTrans.Text = translated
 
    End Sub

Too see an example click here at the mo thats translating from English (en) to Spanish (es).

As this method won't be the fastest and the application i was asked about was a message board, i wondered about translating into various languages as a post was made and storing them all in a database and then retrieving which ever language a user required.

pretty cool ~ bastante fresco

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