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[Bernie_by_the_Sea]

[Geoffrey]

[vovchik]

Dear Geoffrey,

As for the speed of Goot, I can only say the gxlat, if you look at the code, posts the query to google's translation engine and displays the results instantaneously. The only delay is the server's response. If Goot uses Google, there response has, by definition, have to be slower, since they have to go through java layers for presentation, whereas gxlat uses straight gtk as rendered by C. If, however, they use another translation engine, therein lies the difference.

With kind regards,
vovchik

PS. I translated the original java APIs found on the Google site

[Geoffrey]

vovchik,
I can only go on how it runs for me, every test I've done shows that Goot is faster, I just made a short flv of gxlat and Goot in action, this is in real time or very close to it and shows a considerable difference in speed, in some cases Goot is instantaneous.

regards, Geoffrey

[mcewanw]

[vovchik]

Dear mcewanw (William),

Thanks. Please have a look at the parsing stuff. My sed skills are really lacklustre, and we could do a more thourogh clean in the BaCon bit. In fact, using gtrayapp or Doyle's quick tray app might be a nice idea as a launcher, since the prog would always be available in the taskbar. Goot does that bit well. And a language swap would be nice.

I am also trying to understand pcreole and will find some nice uses.

With kind regards,
vovchik

[L18L]

#
# time wget -qO- "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=Dear vovchik, I like your program and I am thinking it is worth to be improved&langpair=en|ru"
{"responseData": {"translatedText":"Уважаемый Вовчик, мне нравится ваша программа, и я имею в виду, стоит быть улучшены"}, "responseDetails": null, "responseStatus": 200}
real 0m0.216s
user 0m0.028s
sys 0m0.000s
#

That was when I had gxlat startet successfully (after 2 timeouts)
Now the same without gxlat running:
# time wget -qO- "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=Dear vovchik, I like your program and I am thinking it is worth to be improved&langpair=en|ru"
{"responseData": {"translatedText":"Уважаемый Вовчик, мне нравится ваша программа, и я имею в виду, стоит быть улучшены"}, "responseDetails": null, "responseStatus": 200}
real 0m5.182s
user 0m0.024s
sys 0m0.000s
#
Hope that helps

[vovchik]

Dear L18L,

I think the timeout problem is related to my timeout setting in bing (bacon program, the source should be there). As you have shown, gxlat really does not inherently slow anything down . The timeouts result from bing reporting slow DNS resolution.

With kind regards,
vovchik

PS. Es ist einfach das Zeug zu ändern/verbessern. Bezüglich Netzwerkverbindungen, Gxlat funktioniert bei mir tadellos - in Wien und sogar in der Ukraine.

[mcewanw]

[L18L]

[vovchik]

Dear L18L,

Much better! Thanks. Do you want to post a revised pet or should I? Very nice mod.

With kind regards,
vovchik

[L18L]

[L18L]

[L18L]

Hi all
Привет всем

I am about working at "swap languages"...
Did it having converted gxlat to BaCon...

Now I have found a problem which is not BaCon related at all.
So I have reproduced it in gxlat 0.1.b

Source text: Привет всем
From: Russian [ru]
To: English [en]
Translated text: ÐŸÑ € ОР² ÐμÑ, Ð ² Ñ ÐμÐŒ

http://translate.google.com/ can translate to "Hi all"

please help

[vovchik]

Dear L18L,

This isn't a gxlat problem. Please see my screenshot. Nothing like yours. It could be that your font isn't showing utf-8 properly or your LANG setting is weird. Mine is set to en_US and I see cyrillic just fine.

With kind regards,
vovchik