For those who want some code to play with: 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use URI::Escape;
use Encode;
require LWP::UserAgent;

my $escape = uri_escape(join('. ', @ARGV));

 
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
 
my $response = $ua->get("http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr?trtext=$esc
+ape&lp=en_ja");
 
if ($response->is_success) {
    $result = $response->content;  # or whatever
} else {
    die $response->status_line;
}
 
Encode::_utf8_on( $result );

my ($translation) = $result =~ /\Q<td bgcolor=white class=s><div style
+=padding:10px;>\E(.+?)\Q<\/div>\E/; 
 
$original = $translation;
$translation=~s/([^[:ascii:]])/sprintf("\\x{%.4x}",ord $1)/ge;

print $translation ."\n". length($original) ."\n". ord(substr($origina
+l,0,1));

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Run this (at least on my machine) and $translation has no visible contents, yet it has a length of 5!

If your machine gives you something sensible, please let me know.

(You can probably remove the Encode calls there .. that was just making sure that the resulting string *was* in utf8 according to perl)


Cheers!
Rick
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