[lac-discuss-en] changes to translation software

[Dev Anand Teelucksingh]

Thanks Kent, know that attempting to fix a system while in production
use with time constraints and software constraints (the Google
translate engine) is difficult but communication within LACRALO has
suffered greatly with the breakdown in mail list translation. Readers
on lac-discuss-en are not aware of the conversations on lac-discuss-es
and similarly, conversations on lac-discuss-es mailing list are not
seen on lac-discuss-en mailing list.

However, with the recent list translation update, I note that the
subject line is being lost when the email is being translated on the
other list. There are a lot of "no subject" or "(sin asunto)" as the
subject line instead of the original or translated subject line. This
breaks conversation threads and makes following conversations VERY
difficult

For example,
Kent's email on the lac-discuss-en list:
http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/pipermail/lac-discuss-en/2011/004308.html
Kent's email on the lac-discuss-es list:
http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/pipermail/lac-discuss-es/2011/003028.html

This needs to be fixed as soon as possible.

Kind Regards,

Dev Anand Teelucksingh
LACRALO Secretariat


On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 1:19 AM, Kent Crispin <kent at icann.org> wrote:
> The automatic list translation software was updated.  There are two changes of note:
>
> 1) The software now detects when the google back end chokes on a too-large translation
> request.  When this error is detected, instead of translated text the forwarded
> message will contain an error indication.  [By trial and error, the maximum size the
> translation engine allows seems to be something over 4kb.  This may be
> non-deterministic, since the input and the output may be different wide character
> sets.]
>
> 2) message threads tended grow larger and larger messages, because they contain
> ever-larger quoted blocks from previous messages.  Now we don't attempt to translate
> quoted text at all -- in some cases this reduced the amount of text sent to the
> translation by a large amount.
>
> As always, if you detect any problems with this software, please let me know.
>
> Best Regards
> Kent Crispin
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