libtranslate is a library for translating text and web pages between natural languages. Its modular infrastructure allows to implement new translation services separately from the core library.

libtranslate is shipped with a generic module supporting web-based translation services such as Babel Fish, Google Language Tools and SYSTRAN. Moreover, the generic module allows to add new services simply by adding a few lines to a XML file (see the services.xml(5) manual page).

The libtranslate distribution includes a powerful command line interface (see the translate(1) manual page).

libtranslate is free software, released under the terms of the revised BSD license.

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Dependencies

Dependency	Minimum Version	Type	Required by
GLib	2.4.0	mandatory	core
libsoup	2.2.0	optional	generic module
libxml2	2.0	optional	generic module
GNU Talk Filters	unknown	optional	talkfilters module

Latest Version

libtranslate version 0.99, released January 15, 2005.

File or Link	Type
source distribution (signature)	official
patch fixing HTTP charset parsing (signature)	official
patch fixing occasional translate_session_translate_text() lockup (signature)	official
patch fixing memory exhaustion on 64-bit platforms (signature)	official
patch allowing to omit the post-marker element (signature)	unofficial, contributed by Dmitry Butskoy
patch updating services.xml (signature)	unofficial, contributed by Dmitry Butskoy
patch adding support for libsoup >= 2.4 (signature)	unofficial, contributed by Dan Winship

The files are signed with Jean-Yves Lefort's PGP public key.

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