Hej August!

 AA> So... what is this trans that you are using?

 :read !trans -V -no-ansi | sed 's/^/ > /'
 > Translate Shell       0.9.7.1
 > 
 > platform              Linux
 > terminal type         linux
 > bi-di emulator        [N/A]
 > gawk (GNU Awk)        5.3.0
 > fribidi (GNU FriBidi) 1.0.12
 > audio player          [NOT INSTALLED]
 > terminal pager        less
 > web browser           xdg-open
 > user locale           en_CA.utf8 (English)
 > host language         en
 > source language       auto
 > target language       en
 > translation engine    auto
 > proxy                 [NONE]
 > user-agent            Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/104.0.1293.54
 > ip version            [DEFAULT]
 > theme                 default
 > init file             [NONE]
 > 
 > Report bugs to:       https://github.com/soimort/translate-shell/issues

I got the above version from github which I created a v0.9.7.1 tarball from.  I have been toying with it using vim's drop to shell command (!) and was thinking it would make an interesting internetted BBS door but haven't really done anything that dramatic ... yet.  Looking at the 'user-agent:' line I get the impression it will play nicely with the correct versions of many web browsers.  As you can tell from my call from vim that I am turing off ansi support, but it does work on the 'linux' terminal, which in this case is a full sized 1080p terminal capable of framebuffer graphics if that is something of interest.  Also works in 'tmux' which I use to split the terminal into smaller terminals that I can bounce around.  No need for a GUI which I currently don't bother with on the EuroPoint.

Anyhow it works great for creating text documents in other languages which is how I've been testing utf-8 capabilities.  At the moment it looks like right-to-left languages (eg Hebrew) are displaying some proper word wrapping issues which is my latest test as you have witnessed.  I am not sure I'll be taking 'trans' out for a spin other than with vim.  Also note I don't have audio turned on the EuroPoint.  I haven't tested that functionality but I might on my main system that has all the toys including xorg and firefox, which it *should* play nicely with ... I think.  I am not a big fan of GUI apps so I have my doubts it'll get that far.  The BBS door idea has a much better chance of actually happening.

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

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