GOOGLE TRANSLATION API (coding)

[Jeffrey Bloch]

I sent the following sentence through Google Translation API (english -> french) and the response substituted certain characters for HTML (I think). I played around with DECODE options to return the code to the actual characters I need, but haven't yet found the solution.

Sent: the woman yelled at the man

Received: la femme a crié à l'homme

Full response:

{
  "data": {
    "translations": [
      {
        "translatedText": "la femme a crié à l'homme"
      }
    ]
  }
}

 

Thanks

 

[comment]

That's not proper JSON: for one thing, there is no need to escape an apostrophe in JSON; for another, if you really wanted to escape it, you would use the form \u0027, not '.

I find it hard to believe that Google would get this wrong (and that you would be the first one to notice) - so I googled (ha!) for 'google translate api escape apostrophe' and found this as the 1st result:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/63272510/17153010:

 

2 hours ago, Jeffrey Bloch said:

I played around with DECODE options

Not sure what you're referring to.

 

[Jeffrey Bloch]

1 hour ago, comment said:

That's not proper JSON: for one thing, there is no need to escape an apostrophe in JSON; for another, if you really wanted to escape it, you would use the form \u0027, not '.

I find it hard to believe that Google would get this wrong (and that you would be the first one to notice) - so I googled (ha!) for 'google translate api escape apostrophe' and found this as the 1st result:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/63272510/17153010:

 

Not sure what you're referring to.

 

I'll check out the article. Thanks.

1 hour ago, comment said:

That's not proper JSON: for one thing, there is no need to escape an apostrophe in JSON; for another, if you really wanted to escape it, you would use the form \u0027, not '.

I find it hard to believe that Google would get this wrong (and that you would be the first one to notice) - so I googled (ha!) for 'google translate api escape apostrophe' and found this as the 1st result:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/63272510/17153010:

 

Not sure what you're referring to.

 

format=text did the trick. Thanks!

Edited November 2, 2022 by Jeffrey Bloch