Re: Apertium error... seeking English <-> Español translation tool

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:45:07 -0700, John Magolske wrote:

> I'd like to use the Apertium translation tool [1], which can translate
> English <-> Español (and other languages too, but that's the pair I'm
> most interested in atm) ... but it doesn't seem to work:
> 
>     % echo "hello world" | apertium en-es Error: Unknown error matching
>     regexp (code -28) hola
> 
>     % echo "world" | apertium en-es
>     Error: Unknown error matching regexp (code -28)
> 
> Seems this is related to some long-standing bugs [2]. 

If you mean this bug:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=503861

It seems to be fixed since version "3.0.7+1-3".

> There's an "Installing apertium on Debian" page [3], but it makes no
> mention of the above error. I was wondering if anyone had any ideas for
> a way to get apertium working, or if there might be another translation
> tool I could install that would do the job. This is on Debian Sid.

(...)

Debian sid has 3.1.0.2, if the above bug is still present in that version 
you should report a regression (ah... now I see you added a comment 
there, good!). 

In the meantime, you can also try with the latest upstream packages (3.2) 
available in sourceforge:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/apertium/files/apertium/

Or try with a different application, such as stardict, goldendict or 
babiloo.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón