Re: Spanish Language in VARPG

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Thanks for the responses.  I'll just tell them it isn't going to happen.


>From: Buck <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: "CODE/400 Discussion &amp; Support" <code400-l-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>
>To: code400-l-Zwy7GipZuJhWk0Htik3J/[email protected]
>Subject: Re: Spanish Language in VARPG
>Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:40:08 -0400
>
>Bob O. wrote:
> > That would work for the labels and buttons on the windows, but, they
> > want the data pulled from the AS/400, iSeries, SystemI (you know what I
> > mean) translated too.  Like I said, all I could do was laugh.
>
>Machine translation might remotely be possible if you created a mash-up
>that funneled your iSeries data through (for example) the Google
>translate tool.  The concept is that you'd have a socket program that
>talks to Google and performs the translation.  Then you stuff the
>translated data onto your display, dealing with the fact that a sentence
>in English is never the same size as a sentence in Spanish.  Of course,
>machine translation is generally ludicrous, so the end results would not
>be very good.
>
>I'd be laughing too.  There's no silver bullet for this.
>    --buck
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