This worked great on Spanish, but not so great for Chinese Simplified, Japanese, Russian and Arabic (I get ???? in the fields). Is there something different that is needed for these languages that contain symbols?
On May 21, 11:27 am, alicia130 <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > > Jeremy R. Geerdes > > Effective website design & development > > Des Moines, IA > > > For more information or a project > > quote:http://jgeerdes.home.mchsi.comhttp://jgeerdes.blogspot.comhttp://jgee... > > [email protected] > > > Unless otherwise noted, any price quotes contained within this > > communication are given in US dollars. > > > If you're in the Des Moines, IA, area, check out Debra Heights > > Wesleyan Church! > > > And check out my blog, Adventures in Web Development, > > athttp://jgeerdes.blogspot.com > > ! > > > 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 theSpanishspecial 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']; > > > } --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google AJAX APIs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-AJAX-Search-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
