Space Cowboy > writes:

>Google translate would be better if it recognized more polysyllabic
>Chinese characters for words you find in dictionaries like Cedict.

Yeah, but Chinese text doesnt have spaces between words. And a given
character in a sentence might be the last character in one word or the
first in another or a middle character in yet another. Teaching a
computer program to figure out this stuff reliably would not be easy.

/Lew
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