How to translate Lotus Notes email, on the fly

Vladislavs Tatarincevs  10 August 2009 14:13:42

Last weekend I was looking for replacement parts for my Ducati bike. I have found them in Germany, as in local stores prices were too high.

I received some mails from Germany, but they were in German, and this is logical. Unfortunately, I don't know yet German, and I used Google Translation to understand some details, that were mentioned in mails.
and I thought, is it possible to make that we can translate text on the fly.

I have created a smartIcon, which will do the work.

Text:=@Abstract( [Abbrev]:[TrimWhite]; 10000; "" ; "Body");
@UrlOpen( "http://translate.google.com/translate_t#auto|ru|"+text+"")


There is a Target Language defined in URL translatate_t#Auto|ru|

the first Auto should stay there, it means google will automatically will try to detect language,
ru - means select destination language to which you want to translate.
so pick your own, de-Germany, fr-France, or it - Italy, where best bikes are designed :))))))

This is alfa version of my translation, it would be nice to trim some HTML, and just make a dump of body and only then pass it to Google.

But this small snippet works :)))

Once again, this was possible because of the open Lotus Notes architecture, were we can easily add new things to Client and template.


Vlaad

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