untangling_the_web

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Fagan Finder Translation Wizard
http://www.faganfinder.com/translate/
Then copy and paste the Hebrew term or phrase into a search engine such as
Google and Yahoo (and many international search engines) that handle multiple
character encodings and you can search on the term without having to load a
Hebrew keyboard.
Here are some other interesting and important facts and features about the Fagan
Finder translation wizard. The wizard gives users the option to list all translation
matches, to choose multiple translators (when available), to select dialects, to list
matches if there are several translation tools so users can pick one or more. Also, in
addition to HTML, PDF and SWF (Flash) file formats are supported for webpage
translations.
Another useful tool that is part of the Fagan Finder translation wizard is the
language identification interface. Here users can enter either text or a uri, and
Fagan Finder will query a set of language identification tools to try to determine the
language and encoding of the text. However, keep in mind that it often easy to
determine the language/encoding of a webpage either by looking at the Page Info
(in Mozilla only; look at charset) or Page Source in both Mozilla and Internet
Explorer. Look for charset, which will indicate a specific character set, which you can
then use to identify the language. For example, Windows-1256, ISO 8859-6, ISO
8859-1 all are Arabic language encodings.
However, you cannot always find this information using Page Source/Info and, for
individual words or phrases, Fagan Finder's language identification interface is
especially valuable. My tests of the language identification tool indicate it usually
does a good job of identifying either the language alone or the language and the
encoding. Fagan Finder's language identification is not a single tool but a single
interface to many language identification tools. Users have the option to choose
among 10 language identification tools. Given the complexity and difficulty of
language identification, it's probably a good idea to compare the results of several
different tools and not rely on one.
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