thanks, i'll give that try!
On May 21, 11:09 am, Jeremy Geerdes <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think you need to use the PHP's utf8_decode function on your
> response string. The Language API deals in the utf-8 character set;
> PHP generally handles ISO-8859-1 character set.
>
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> On May 21, 2009, at 10:58 AM, alicia130 wrote:
>
>
>
> > I am calling google translate with the below code (I used Curl to
> > allow me to translate more than 500 characters). However, I am having
> > issues with the Spanish special characters not being returned
> > correctly.
>
> > Here is an example of what is being returned:
> > í³ instead of ó
> > ó instead of ó
> > í¡ instead of á
> > í± instead of ñ
> > etc.
>
> > Currently, I have to do a string replace in PHP to clean up the
> > garbage. I'd rather not hard code this though. Has anyone ran into
> > this issue before?
>
> > function translate($transText,$tlang){
>
> > define('POSTURL', 'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/
> > language/translate');
> > // INITIALIZE ALL VARS
> > $ch='';
> > $Rec_Data='';
>
> > $ch = curl_init(POSTURL);
> > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST ,1);
> > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS ,
> > 'q='. urlencode($transText). '&v=1.0'. '&langpair=%7C' . $tlang);
>
> > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION ,1);
> > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER ,0); // DO NOT RETURN
> > HTTP HEADERS
> > curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER ,1); // RETURN THE
> > CONTENTS OF THE CALL
>
> > $rec_Data = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);
> > return $rec_Data['responseData']['translatedText'];
> > }
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