Babelfish now translates asian characters

you have got to see this

[NFFC]

[babelfish.altavista.com]

Japanese to English
Korean to English
Chinese to English

Go and have a play, this is really impressive.

[oilman]

don't forget you need to have the language packs installed to display the characters ;)

I got a bunch of little squares and thought 'Hey - that ain't Korean' then I remembered I didn't have the language pack - DOH!

[bill]

They've had that up since at least January. I'm not too thrilled with the quality of the Japanese translation...not sure about the quality of the Korean and Chinese. I had seen better machine translation sites in the past, but most all of them have either gone bankrupt or removed their free services.

[Gorufu]

Babelfish also has big problems with katakana (foreign words) and kanji when it is referring to a Japanese person's name.

I ran a couple of Japanese pages through Babelfish with rather amusing translations.

jack Ni class - should be Jack Nicklaus
the jumbo tail promontory - should be Jumbo Ozaki
the Okamoto twill child - should be Okamoto Ayako
the flat shoal true bow - this one has really confused me
Bliss ville - should be Brisbane

It could not tranlate the katakana for Greg Norman or my business name. They remained in katakana, (Japanese characters).

I will try to get a Korean friend to test a couple of Korean pages and maybe Woz might get a chance to test the Chinese translations.