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Re: [mv] Locale stuff
At 04:58 PM 9/8/99 , Birgitt Funk wrote:
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[big snip]
>Hi JoJo,
>
>I had the same question as you have (how can I support you?) and
>like to suggest or solicit some help as well. Having only worked
>with an English book catalog a long time ago, I like to try out
>a multilingual test catalog (books) on the upcoming MV4.
>
>What would be of help for me, is finding some sample book related
>product.asc files for French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and German book
>titles as they are provided by wholesalor's databases in those
>countries. (Let's say 4000-10000 titles each)
>
>Of course if someone has files for Russian and Japanese Book titles or
>any other language and wouldn't mind donating them for testing purposes
>purely that would be great too.
>
>I can't afford to pay another license fee for the databases provided
>by the various wholesalors in Europe and would appreciate some help
>in getting data at no cost. Test catalog would be made public, if I
>manange to make one. 8-)
>
>Anyone who deals with books and would like to give me some hint where
>to get data, please email me.
Write a Perl script to recursively surf Amazon.com and it's foreign
counterparts to leach their data.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Birgitt Funk
>
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