[development] Google translation module

[Idan Arbel]

thanks, but I want the translated content to be saved as nodes, and not to
be translated on the fly.

Idan

On Jan 12, 2008 7:43 PM, Amr Mostafa <amr.mostafa at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Idan,
>
> I would like to point out that there is an existing module which does
> exactly what you described, it's called gtrans.
>
> http://drupal.org/project/gtrans
>
> - Amr
>
>
> On Jan 12, 2008 7:30 PM, Idan Arbel <idan at arbel-designs.com> wrote:
>
> >  Hello,
> >
> >
> >
> > I'm working on a module to auto translate nodes on my websites. I'm
> > using google translate to do this.
> >
> >
> >
> > I've encountered a problem that I was hoping someone would have an idea
> > how to solve….when I translate a text that has "special characters", mainly
> > those that aren't English, and I try to display them, I get characters that
> > are black diamonds. When trying to display those using drupal with drupal
> > set message, something strange happens, it seems like drupal just ignores
> > the entire function. I'm trying to print it out of a nodeapi hook, and the
> > when I do all the other drupal_set_messages aren't displayed, even those
> > that come before.
> >
> >
> >
> > Anyway, I think I've isolated the problem to the encoding of the
> > characters, but I don't know how to solve it. I see the characters with the
> > black diamonds when I print_r($translation), in this case I only see them.
> > And when ever I try to drupal_set_message them I don't see anything.
> >
> >
> >
> > If I translate a text that doesn't have one of those characters, all is
> > well.
> >
> >
> >
> > This is what I'm using to translate the texts:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > function google_translate($text, $from = 'en', $to = 'es') {
> >
> >   $data = "h1=en&ie=UTF8&text=$text";
> >
> >   $result =
> > drupal_http_request(I18N_AUTO_GOOGLE_TRANSLATE_TRANSLATOR_URL .
> > '?langpair='. $from .'|'. $to, array(), 'POST', $data);
> >
> >   $texttosearch = "id=result_box";
> >
> >   $start = strpos($result->data, $texttosearch);
> >
> >   $end = strpos($result->data, "</div>", $start+24);
> >
> >   $start = $start + 24;
> >
> >   $translated = substr($result->data, $start, $end-$start);
> >
> >   return $translated;
> >
> > }
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> >
> > Idan
> >
>
>
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