babel fish and websites

Yesterday i added a set of translation links to the keyclone webarea for our non-english speaking buddies. i don't know how great the translation comes out, but hopefully it'll help.

any feelings on the translation stuff? works like crap? its amazing? feedback is good. :)

if anyone is interested (Ellay), this is all i added to the web pages:

Quote:

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<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function translate(lang) {
location.replace( "http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp="+lang+"&trurl="+location.hre f ) ;
}
// -->

<map name="tr">
<area shape="rect" coords="299,5,339,25" href="http://babelfish.altavista.com/">
<area shape="rect" coords="344,8,370,22" href="javascript:translate('en')">
<area shape="rect" coords="372,8,398,22" href="javascript:translate('en_ru')">
<area shape="rect" coords="400,8,426,22" href="javascript:translate('en_zt')">
<area shape="rect" coords="428,8,454,22" href="javascript:translate('en_de')">
<area shape="rect" coords="456,8,482,22" href="javascript:translate('en_ja')">
<area shape="rect" coords="484,8,510,22" href="javascript:translate('en_ko')">
<area shape="rect" coords="512,8,538,22" href="javascript:translate('en_fr')">
<area shape="rect" coords="540,8,566,22" href="javascript:translate('en_it')">
<area shape="rect" coords="568,8,594,22" href="javascript:translate('en_pt')">
<area shape="rect" coords="596,8,622,22" href="javascript:translate('en_es')">
</map>

[img]../images/footer_bar_tr.jpg[/img]

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and the image bar looks like this:
http://solidice.com/images/footer_bar_tr.jpg

Quote:

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Originally Posted by keyclone

i don't know how great the translation comes out, but hopefully it'll help.

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I do. As a native speaker of english and a non fluent speaker of several other languages.... it sucks. It's far better on romance languages (french, german, spanish) than ones with other character sets - japanese, chinese. But it still renders a fairly poor example of localization.

Not trying to knock it too badly - it works - but not very well (yet). Better than nothing though.

well it is very bad translation :P