After way too much time away, I have finally gotten around to refactoring my free translation web service, after a move to a new host (more on that later).

The service, which has been housed at:

http://www.restlessdelusions.com/projects/services/translate/translate.asmx

has had a bug with certain characters for quite a while.  An English to Spanish translation of "This is mine." resulted in the garbled "?ste es el m?o", due to some encoding error I never had the time to fix. Well here's the answer:  you can encode a StreamReader with a codepage based on the client's machine. To solve the problem, I created an enum based on microsoft's typography docs and created an overload which defaulted to Latin2 (Codepage 1250). There's also an overload if anyone using the service wants to choose a custom codepage.

You can try out the service via the asmx above, or use my Winform Sample

Enjoy!