WWW-Babelfish - Changes

Revision history for Perl extension WWW::Babelfish.

0.01 Tue Apr 20 20:43:40 1999

original version; created by h2xs 1.18

0.02 Thu May 6 20:42:35 1999

added code to break up source text by paragraph and reassemble it. This looks nicer in the output and Babelfish seems to like it better.

0.03 Tue May 18 20:04:45 1999

bug fixes for accidental appending of source text, multiple linefeeds, and timeouts. Also added demo code to test.pl

0.04 Wed Jan 5 16:33:11 2000

Added proxy support and support for input/output filehandles using IO::String to maintain backwards compatibility; now we can translate whole novels! Added support for user-specified paragraph delimiters. Some code clean-up.

0.05 Thu Feb 10 14:48:10 2000

Added improved test code and changed "deliminators" to "delimiters" so I look like less of an idiot.

0.06 Fri Feb 11 12:06:02 2000

Fixed test to chomp() proxy so it doesn't fail in non-proxied environments. Duh.

0.07 Fri Feb 25 16:31:38 2000

Incorporated patch from Brian Raven <brianr@liffe.com> to avoid "use of undefined" warning when source text doesn't start with white space.

0.08 Mon Jun 12 22:09:32 2000

Added patch from Peter Tirsek <peter@tirsek.com> to fix bug in whitespace handling at beginning of paragraph and new Babelfish URL and format. Patches for URL and format were also submitted by Wolfgang Schlueschen <wolfgang.schlueschen@philips.com> and Daniel van Balen <vdaniel@trompo.com>.

0.09 Sun Aug 13 20:38:11 2000

Added patch from Olivier Scherler <olivier.scherler@urbanet.ch> for subtle whitespace handling bug.

0.10 Mon Oct 15 21:43:07 EDT 2001

Patch from Brett T Warden <bwarden@wgz.com> to do non-Roman alphabet languages. Also fixed test.pl to get language list and added PREREQ_PM hash to Makefile.PL

0.11 Mon Nov 18 23:41:42 EST 2002

Fixed new Babelfish url and result page format, which is much simpler; Babelfish now claims it will translate "up to 150 words"; I'm not sure if this is a change from the ~1000 characters it did before. I think the new format may not need the whitespace cleanup code anymore.

0.12 Sat Oct 18 22:06:03 MDT 2003

Changed $BABELFISH_URL so default input language is English, on a tip from Ivica Letunic <Ivica.Letunic@EMBL-Heidelberg.de> Patch from Martin K. Sluka <martin@sluka.de> to add languagepairs method. Removed line that closes output filehandle. Added preliminary support for Google translation engine (ugly and hacky, but very easy since the interface is almost identical to Babelfish; so are the translations, hmmm). Changed Makefile.PL so it prompts to run translation test; this way it can be automatically installed via CPAN. All strings are now encoded/decoded utf8 using the Encode module; this means perl 5.8 is required.

0.13 Sat Aug 6 20:59:23 MDT 2005

        -Patch from Eric R. Meyers <ermeyers@adelphia.net> to fix
        corruption of main package space. Fixed parsing of Babelfish's
        language pairs. Fixed test.pl to ask for service (Babelfish or
        Google).

0.14 Mon May 15 21:58:45 MDT 2006

        -Patch from Jan Willamowius <jan@willamowius.de> to add Yahoo
        translation service. Also added new "services" method to
        provide list of services and changed test.pl to use this.

0.15 Wed Jun 7 22:21:28 MDT 2006

        -A couple of patches from <FANY@cpan.org> for the Babelfish engine,
        to fix umlauts and to work around an inconsistency in the way 
        Babelfish returns the translation for some texts.

0.16 Fri Dec 15 20:50:38 MST 2006

        -Patch from Djihed Afifi <djihed@gmail.com> for a change in
        the Google results page format