BabelFishTranslator.tcl (current version: 1.12)

MenzAgitat · Post by **MenzAgitat** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 9:15 pm

Uses BabelFish to translate words or sentences from/to english.
(french version does the same from/to french)

Allowed languages can be easily modified according to BabelFish available languages.

eg.:

<nick> !translate en-fr this is a test
<bot> Translation: ceci est un test

You can download the latest version here until it has been added to the Tcl archive :
BabelFishTranslator.tcl v1.12 (english version)
BabelFishTranslator.tcl v1.12 (french version)

please leave comments / bug reports here

raktivist · Post by **raktivist** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 11:14 pm

'i edited mine to this.. to reflect correct 'help' notice.
pardon me but i don't know anything about scripting but i figured i edit that line as it was incorrect info! other than that! very neat script u got here!

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 putserv "NOTICE $nick :\037Available languages:\037" 
      putserv "NOTICE $nick :\002fr-en\002 —— French/English" 
      putserv "NOTICE $nick :\002de-en\002 —— German/English" 
      putserv "NOTICE $nick :\002nl-en\002 —— Dutch/English" 
      putserv "NOTICE $nick :\002it-en\002 —— Italian/English" 
      putserv "NOTICE $nick :\002pt-en\002 —— Portuguese/English" 
      putserv "NOTICE $nick :\002es-en\002 —— Spanish/English" 
      putserv "NOTICE $nick :\002en-fr\002 —— English/French" 
      putserv "NOTICE $nick :\002en-de\002 —— English/German" 
      putserv "NOTICE $nick :\002en-nl\002 —— English/Dutch" 
      putserv "NOTICE $nick :\002en-it\002 —— English/Italian" 
      putserv "NOTICE $nick :\002en-pt\002 —— English/Portuguese" 
      putserv "NOTICE $nick :\002en-es\002 —— English/Spanish"

MenzAgitat · Post by **MenzAgitat** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 8:34 am

Oops, you are right.
I am a french guy and the script was originally written for that language.
When I translated it for english-speaking users, I apparently forgot some details in the online help

Thank you for having noticed that, here is the fixed version : BabelFishTranslator

Note: The french version does not have this issue, so the latest french version is still v1.0

mabus · Post by **mabus** » Sun Aug 12, 2007 12:01 pm

How difficult would it be to add other languages to this?

MenzAgitat · Post by **MenzAgitat** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 9:06 am

It is very simple, as long as it is supported by babelfish.altavista.com.

Go take a look here and click on Sélectionnez les langues source et cible to see if it can be done.

Which languages do you want to add support for ?

mabus · Post by **mabus** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 10:12 am

A couple of my channel members speak russian and have been asking me try to find something to help them out. Though of course, the more languages it could incorporate the better.

MenzAgitat · Post by **MenzAgitat** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 7:44 am

Languages using specific charsets are a little bit problematic, I need a complete conversion table including russian characters for the Url construction procedure.

Look for this in BabelFishTranslator.tcl :

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##### URL construction
      set text [string map { 
....

Should someone find that for me, I could add russian support.

mabus · Post by **mabus** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 5:55 pm

hmmm, I see the "string map" in the script. What exactly would you need to be found ... specifically?

MenzAgitat · Post by **MenzAgitat** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 6:50 am

I need a conversion table for russian specific characters -> hex values

schizosmurf · Post by **schizosmurf** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 10:59 am

installed this script yesterday and it works perfectly. good job.

is there a way to make it work in private message also, and not just from public message
ex. /msg eggbot !translate en-es How are you today?

MenzAgitat · Post by **MenzAgitat** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 1:13 pm

Good idea, I'll also put the whole thing in a namespace to avoid possible conflicts.
Expect a new version very soon.

MenzAgitat · Post by **MenzAgitat** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 3:53 pm

New version available.

changelog:
v1.1
- It is now possible to do a request in private msg with the bot like this :

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/msg botname !translate en-fr This is a test

- Integration in a namespace

schizosmurf · Post by **schizosmurf** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 4:17 pm

works great. good job

dropped script into folder, restart bot, and tada!
thx for taking my suggestion and making it reality

MenzAgitat · Post by **MenzAgitat** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 2:03 pm

At the moment, there are only two versions of the script : english and french.
If some altruist guys would translate the whole script (including comments) into some other languages, I could add them in a multilingual package

MenzAgitat · Post by **MenzAgitat** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 8:17 am

New version available : v1.11
- bug fix in the english version
- the help displays faster

You can find a working link to download it in the first post of this thread.