I suspect this is a FAQ, but as a guide to my further investigation, I
wondered what the options are for providing readers of my web pages
with the ability to translate the pages into their own language.

Haines Brown

Haines Brown wrote:
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> I suspect this is a FAQ, but as a guide to my further investigation, I
> wondered what the options are for providing readers of my web pages
> with the ability to translate the pages into their own language.[/color]

Google offers translation, see
http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en
but I haven't checked whether they allow you to put a form using their
translation service on your own pages as they do allow for Google search
I think if you sign up.


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Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 18:31:22 +0200, Martin Honnen <mahotrash@yahoo.de>
wrote:
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>
> Haines Brown wrote:
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>> I suspect this is a FAQ, but as a guide to my further investigation, I
>> wondered what the options are for providing readers of my web pages
>> with the ability to translate the pages into their own language.[/color]
>
> Google offers translation, see
> http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en
> but I haven't checked whether they allow you to put a form using their
> translation service on your own pages as they do allow for Google search
> I think if you sign up.[/color]

Google search doesn't even necessarily require signup. I don't know of a
similar translation snip either.

Martin Honnen <mahotrash@yahoo.de> writes:
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> Haines Brown wrote:
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> > I suspect this is a FAQ, but as a guide to my further investigation, I
> > wondered what the options are for providing readers of my web pages
> > with the ability to translate the pages into their own language.[/color]
>
> Google offers translation, see
> http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en
> but I haven't checked whether they allow you to put a form using their
> translation service on your own pages as they do allow for Google
> search I think if you sign up.[/color]

A service similar to Google search was one thing I had in mind, but
nothing on its language_tools page suggests such a service exists. One
complication is that a translation service must first ask what
language to translate to.

I did find that if I had my browser (Galeon) display the German Google
page and did a search for one of my pages, the page name is followed
by a translation link. When clicked, it translatted the page from
English to German (but also hung my desktop, which didn't happen if I
merely pasted an address into the "translate a web page" field).

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Haines Brown

Haines Brown <brownh@teufel.hartford-hwp.com> wrote in
news:87y8m2765f.fsf@teufel.hartford-hwp.com:
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> I suspect this is a FAQ, but as a guide to my further investigation, I
> wondered what the options are for providing readers of my web pages
> with the ability to translate the pages into their own language.[/color]

You can see an example of something I'm working on for
the Degree Confluence Project website:
http://www.confluence.org/infodcpX.php
It's not in production yet, and may change.
Look at the "Multi-language Support" section. You can try
the "Translate" link at the top of the page to translate
the page into a variety of languages, using three website translators.

As for the "terms of service", here's part of an email
I sent to others in the project when we were discussing this:
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Here's the "terms of use pages" - I don't see any problem
with having these links to the translation sites:
GOOGLE:
I can't find anything specific - the closest is:
http://www.translate.ru/terms.asp?lang=en
PROMPT:
http://www.translate.ru/terms.asp?lang=en
AltaVista:
There are terms on this page:
http://www.altavista.com/help/free/f...archbox_transl
but we aren't using their "I want this one" approach,
as it uses javascript.
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Dave Patton
Canadian Coordinator, Degree Confluence Project
http://www.confluence.org/
My website: http://members.shaw.ca/davepatton/

On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Haines Brown wrote:
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> complication is that a translation service must first ask what
> language to translate to.[/color]

That *must* at least be an option, "thanks" to the pathetic support
for Accept-language defaults from a certain dominant browser-like OS
component. (YKWIM)

But you could *also* offer the option to translate to the visitor's
stated best-preference Accept-language. (How to actually implement
that would be a server-configuration issue that isn't really on-topic
here, but pretty-much any server-side scripting language will at least
have access to this header. Apache might be persuaded to do the
decoding of it for you - which would be good, because there are some
gotchas for anyone trying to code it themselves.)