Mohamad Babaei wrote:
> I'm working on a program that fetches some translated
> texts from *Altavista online translator , *it works
> fine with languages like German, french & .. but it
> can not get translated text in Japanese or Russian
> or chinese. my code is something like this:
>
> data1 = urllib.urlopen('http://www.babelfish.
> altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?
> lp=en_ru&url="" href="http://www.google.com').read(">http://www.google.com').read()
> data1=data1.decode('utf-8')
> f=open('/usr/local/new/tt.html','w')
> f.write(data1.encode('utf-8'))
> f.close()
1. Have you examined the response headers on a request for Japanese content and verified that the response is encoded in UTF-8?
2. Why decode it just to turn around and encode it again with the same encoding?
Robert Brewer
System Architect
Amor Ministries
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