After a conversation in the opensuse-support mail list I discovered program
"translate" in package libtranslate-progs. The program apparently uses the
services of yahoo babelfish, which is dead. It was apparently moved to "Bing".
Maybe the developer could adapt the program to call Microsoft now, but he did
not. I suggest the package be removed from the distribution if it can not be
adapted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babel_Fish_(website)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Translator
Example runs:
cer@Telcontar:~> translate -t en http://www.freebsd.org/es/index.html
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_load?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freebsd.org%2Fes%2Findex.html&lp=fr_en&enc=utf8
which redirects to <https://es.yahoo.com/?p=us>
cer@Telcontar:~> echo "Le probl��me est r��solu." | translate -f fr -t en
[#############################################################################]
(translate:6299): libtranslate-WARNING **: unable to translate chunk using
Babel Fish: Invalid byte sequence in conversion input
(translate:6299): libtranslate-WARNING **: unable to translate chunk using
SYSTRAN: Could not connect: Connection timed out
(translate:6299): libtranslate-WARNING **: unable to translate chunk using
Google: unable to parse server data
(translate:6299): libtranslate-WARNING **: unable to translate chunk using
FreeTranslation: Could not connect: Connection timed out
(translate:6299): libtranslate-WARNING **: unable to translate chunk using
1-800-Translate: Error resolving ���www.1-800-translate.com���: Name or service not
known
(translate:6299): libtranslate(generic)-WARNING **: in promt, group 1, "post"
attribute of "text-translation" element: unable to convert to "windows-1251":
Invalid byte sequence in conversion input
(translate:6299): libtranslate-WARNING **: unable to translate chunk using
PROMT Online-Translator: Not Found
(translate:6299): libtranslate-WARNING **: unable to translate chunk using
Babel Fish: Invalid byte sequence in conversion input
(translate:6299): libtranslate-WARNING **: unable to translate chunk using
SYSTRAN: Could not connect: Connection timed out
(translate:6299): libtranslate-WARNING **: unable to translate chunk using
Google: unable to parse server data
(translate:6299): libtranslate-WARNING **: unable to translate chunk using
FreeTranslation: Could not connect: Connection timed out
(translate:6299): libtranslate-WARNING **: unable to translate chunk using
1-800-Translate: Error resolving ���www.1-800-translate.com���: Name or service not
known
(translate:6299): libtranslate(generic)-WARNING **: in promt, group 1, "post"
attribute of "text-translation" element: unable to convert to "windows-1251":
Invalid byte sequence in conversion input
(translate:6299): libtranslate-WARNING **: unable to translate chunk using
PROMT Online-Translator: Not Found
(translate:6299): libtranslate-WARNING **: unable to translate chunk using
Babel Fish: Invalid byte sequence in conversion input
(translate:6299): libtranslate-WARNING **: unable to translate chunk using
SYSTRAN: Could not connect: Connection timed out
(translate:6299): libtranslate-WARNING **: unable to translate chunk using
Google: unable to parse server data
(translate:6299): libtranslate-WARNING **: unable to translate chunk using
FreeTranslation: Could not connect: Connection timed out
(translate:6299): libtranslate-WARNING **: unable to translate chunk using
1-800-Translate: Error resolving ���www.1-800-translate.com���: Name or service not
known
(translate:6299): libtranslate(generic)-WARNING **: in promt, group 1, "post"
attribute of "text-translation" element: unable to convert to "windows-1251":
Invalid byte sequence in conversion input
(translate:6299): libtranslate-WARNING **: unable to translate chunk using
PROMT Online-Translator: Not Found
translate: unable to translate: no service could translate chunk
cer@Telcontar:~>