Re: [MUD-Dev] ScryMUD 1.9.3 released.

["Jon A. Lambert" <jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com>]

On 25 May 99,, Ben Greear wrote:
> 
> There are several interesting things in this realease.  First, I've
> added rudimentary hooks for multi-lingual capability.  Check out the
> translations.spec and the say(...) method in commands.cc for some
> prototype code.  This will allow a spanish speaker to see:
> 
> Grock habla 'foo'
> and an English speaker to see:
> Grock says 'foo'
> 
> Obviously I need to find someone fluent to translate :)
>

I have been using AltaVista's Babelfish quite a bit, since I read a lot 
of foreign newspapers.  I think it's up there with sliced bread. ;)
Languages which have a similar sentence structure to English work very 
well.  While others that use backwards sentences or dozens of genders  
are more difficult to comprehend.  Relatively to English that is. :P

They also have stand-alone retail versions.  Perhaps one might integrate
such a product into a mud.  I'm not sure about APIs or royalties and what 
not. 

  <URL http://babelfish.altavista.com/> 


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