# -*- Mode: perl; indent-tabs-mode: nil -*- # # The contents of this file are subject to the Mozilla Public License # Version 1.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in # compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at # http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/ # # Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" # basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the # License for the specific language governing rights and limitations # under the License. # # The Original Code is the Bugzilla Bug Tracking System. # # The Initial Developer of the Original Code is Netscape Communications # Corporation. Portions created by Netscape are Copyright (C) 1998 # Netscape Communications Corporation. All Rights Reserved. # # Contributor(s): Terry Weissman # # # # Most of this module is rudely swiped from infobot. Here are the various # licensing words I found with it: # -- # # The license for this stuff is yet to be written. # Please don't do anything good with it without at # least mentioning this work, perhaps the author (Kevin # Lenzo, lenzo@cs.cmu.edu), and the Carnegie Mellon # University, which supports my study. # # Also, there is work being done on various bits of this # now by various people; if you have any corrections # or contributions, please send them to me. Flat # ascii files of databases, made with dump_db, are # wonderful things to share, and a repository will be # set up. # # --- # # This program is copyright Jonathan Feinberg 1999. # # This program is distributed under the same terms as infobot. # # Jonathan Feinberg # jdf@pobox.com # http://pobox.com/~jdf/ # # Version 1.0 # First public release. # # ---------------------- (End of licensing words) ------------------------ package babel; use strict; use diagnostics; my $no_babel; BEGIN { eval "use URI::Escape"; # utility functions for encoding the if ($@) { $no_babel++}; # babelfish request eval "use LWP::UserAgent"; if ($@) { $no_babel++}; } BEGIN { # Translate some feasible abbreviations into the ones babelfish # expects. use vars qw!%lang_code $lang_regex!; %lang_code = ( fr => 'fr', sp => 'es', po => 'pt', pt => 'pt', it => 'it', ge => 'de', de => 'de', gr => 'de', en => 'en' ); # Here's how we recognize the language you're asking for. It looks # like RTSL saves you a few keystrokes in #perl, huh? $lang_regex = join '|', keys %lang_code; } sub babelfish { return '' if $no_babel; my ($direction, $lang, $phrase) = @_; $lang = $lang_code{$lang}; my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent; $ua->timeout(4); my $req = HTTP::Request->new('POST', 'http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate'); $req->content_type('application/x-www-form-urlencoded'); my $tolang = "en_$lang"; my $toenglish = "${lang}_en"; if ($direction eq 'to') { return translate($phrase, $tolang, $req, $ua); } elsif ($direction eq 'from') { return translate($phrase, $toenglish, $req, $ua); } my $last_english = $phrase; my $last_lang; my %results = (); my $i = 0; while ($i++ < 7) { last if $results{$phrase}++; $last_lang = $phrase = translate($phrase, $tolang, $req, $ua); last if $results{$phrase}++; $last_english = $phrase = translate($phrase, $toenglish, $req, $ua); } return $last_english; } sub translate { return '' if $no_babel; my ($phrase, $languagepair, $req, $ua) = @_; my $urltext = uri_escape($phrase); $req->content("urltext=$urltext&lp=$languagepair&doit=done"); my $res = $ua->request($req); if ($res->is_success) { my $html = $res->content; # This method subject to change with the whims of Altavista's design # staff. my ($translated) = ($html =~ m{
\s+ \s* (?:\*\*\s+time\ out\s+\*\*)? \s* ([^<]*) }sx); $translated =~ s/\n/ /g; $translated =~ s/\s*$//; return $translated; } else { return ":("; # failure } } "Hello. I'm a true value.";