-={ 2021-03-07 18:42:15.550216597+00:00 }=-

Hey August!

As promised here is a test utf-8 msg that contains both Russian and Latvian translations of "Offhand it appears that translate works" using google's translate from vim's commandline.

  :read !trans -b -no-ansi -s english -t russian "Offhand it appears that translate works"
   ¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨ ¨¨¨¨¨¨¨, ¨¨¨ ¨¨¨¨¨¨¨ ¨¨¨¨¨

  :read !trans -b -no-ansi -s english -t latvian "Offhand it appears that translate works"
   Izskat¨s, ka darbs tiek tulkots ¨rpus rokas

It looks good from this angle ... and with the Old English tagline too.  I am throwing that in as a bonus.  Enjoy.

Life is good,
Maurice

... Getreowan freond... deorweor¨este ¨yng eallra ¨issa woruldges‘l¨a.
    True friends are the most precious of all this world's joys.
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