[development] help with the auto translate module?

[Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg]

Idan-

There already is an auto translate module:
http://drupal.org/project/i18n_auto

This module has the same issue that you mention, which is caused by Google's
compression of the special characters.

Aaron Winborn and I just submitted 4 tasks to the GHOP queue (well, they're
all in one issue, but will be split into 4 tasks) to bring this module out
of Dev and into a full version (part of the task is to fix this exact
issue): http://drupal.org/node/208539

Care to work with us to fix this module, rather than create a new one? If
this is taken on by one of the students it very well may be fixed in the
near future...

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Message: 6
> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 19:30:52 +0200
> From: "Idan Arbel" <idan at arbel-designs.com>
> Subject: [development] Google translation module
> To: < development at drupal.org>
> Message-ID: <20080112173054.D6AE530021 at sa5.bezeqint.net>
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> 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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