Hi Maurice, 
    ...Greets from my Telegram app!

 MK> -={ 2021-03-07 18:42:15.550216597+00:00 }=-
 MK> 
 MK> Hey August!
 MK> 
 MK> 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.
 MK> 
 MK>   :read !trans -b -no-ansi -s english -t russian "Offhand it appears that translate works"
 MK>    авскидк* кажется, что перевод работ
 MK> 
 MK>   :read !trans -b -no-ansi -s english -t latvian "Offhand it appears that translate works"
 MK>    Izskat?s, ka darbs tiek tulkots ?rpus rokas
 MK> 
 MK> It looks good from this angle ... and with the Old English tagline too.  I am throwing that in as a bonus.  Enjoy.
 MK> 
 MK> Life is good,
 MK> Maurice
 MK> 
 MK> ... Getreowan freond... deorweor?este ?yng eallra ?issa woruldges?l?a.
 MK>     True friends are the most precious of all this world's joys.

Looks good on Telegram!

A better equivalent in Latvian for "offhand" might be "no rokas" or "uz vietas" in the original context.  But in other context, "improviz?ts" might work.

BTW.. since this message would go through Stas' system, my Latvian chars above may not translate.  I will confirm with my nntp connection later where Thunderbird seems to handle utf-8 automatically.

Ciao!
 /|ug (https://t.me/aabolins)

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