The actually translation is call by the lltranslate.cpp, the google
url is hardcoded, it should not be hard to make it a setting in the
xml file:

+// These two are concatenated with the language specifiers to form a
complete Google Translate URL
+const char* LLTranslate::m_GoogleURL =
"http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=";;

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 6:17 AM, Jo Grant <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> By what mechanism is the translation done? If it's not local, what is the 
> transport mechanism to and from the translation service?
> I've done a lot of work on chat translation and you can't forget the privacy 
> concerns. Not that Second Life chat is secure anyway, but people are going to 
> want to know who their chats are being sent to. If it's going up and down the 
> line via https, or some other secured transfer protocol, that's one step. 
> However, a picky person would say that if the service logs the text submitted 
> for translation (which Google does, to build up it's dictionaries) than it is 
> a violation of the terms of service.
> Just saying...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jo /Jaymin Carthage
>
>
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