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Language Translation from the Command Line or Clipboard

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 7, 2008

“Web-based automatic translators such as translate.google.com
are great for getting the gist of what a document is saying, but it
can be cumbersome to have to open a new tab in your browser, load
that URL, and copy and paste the text you want to translate into
your browser. The twandgtw project allows you to get language
translations directly from the Linux command line using either
local dictionaries or online services.

“Binary packages are available for Fedora 7 and 8. Other
distributions have to follow the normal configure;
make; sudo make install procedure to
install from source…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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