Google translation via Delphi code :)

[paul_nicholls]

Hi all,
After googling today I found the below link:

http://delphiptt.blogspot.com/2006/0...om-delphi.html

It allows you to make a request to the google translation engine to translate some text for you and return the translated version as a string using Delphi

cheers,
Paul

[NecroDOME]

Cool, now you can translate your game/story on the fly \o/
(however it's still computer translation, so its still doesn't feel 'human')

[Joshas]

Could be fun to use in MMORPG.

[paul_nicholls]

If anyone wants to use it, I have made a unit for doing the translation.

It requires the Synapse internet classes (http://www.ararat.cz/synapse/doku.php).

I had to change the search strings slightly because the translator was finding the original text instead of the translated version and returning that!!

Unit translator_unit;
{$IFDEF FPC}
{$MODE DELPHI} {$H+}
{$ENDIF}
Interface

Const
{..............................................................................}

//    cLanguagePair_ = 0;
    cLanguagePair_EnglishToFrench  = 2;
    cLanguagePair_EnglishToGerman  = 3;
    cLanguagePair_EnglishToItalian = 4;
//    cLanguagePair_ = 5;
//    cLanguagePair_ = 6;
//    cLanguagePair_ = 7;
//    cLanguagePair_ = 8;
//    cLanguagePair_ = 9;
//    cLanguagePair_ = 10;
//    cLanguagePair_ = 11;
//    cLanguagePair_ = 12;
    cLanguagePair_ItalianToEnglish = 13;
//    cLanguagePair_ = 14;
//    cLanguagePair_ = 15;
//    cLanguagePair_ = 16;
//    cLanguagePair_ = 17;

    cLanguagePairList : Array[0..17] Of AnsiString =(
        'zh-CN%7Cen',
        'en%7Czh-CN',
        'en%7Cfr',
        'en%7Cde',
        'en%7Cit',
        'en%7Cja',
        'en%7Cko',
        'en%7Cpt',
        'en%7Ces',
        'fr%7Cen',
        'fr%7Cde',
        'de%7Cen',
        'de%7Cfr',
        'it%7Cen',
        'ja%7Cen',
        'ko%7Cen',
        'pt%7Cen',
        'es%7Cen'
    );
{..............................................................................}

{..............................................................................}
Function  TranslateText(Const ATextIn        : AnsiString;
                        Var   ATextOut       : AnsiString;
                        Const ALanguagePair  : Integer) : Boolean;
                        
Implementation

Uses
    Classes,
    httpsend,
    SysUtils;
    
{..............................................................................}

{..............................................................................}
Function  HTTPEncode(Const AStr : AnsiString) : AnsiString;
Const
    cNoConversion = ['A'..'Z', 'a'..'z', '*', '@', '.', '_', '-'];
Var
    Sp, Rp : PChar;
Begin
    SetLength(Result, Length(AStr) * 3);
    Sp := PChar(AStr);
    Rp := PChar(Result);
    While Sp^ <> #0 Do
    Begin
        If Sp^ in cNoConversion Then
            Rp^ &#58;= Sp^
        Else
        If Sp^ = ' ' Then
            Rp^ &#58;= '+'
        Else
        Begin
            FormatBuf&#40;Rp^, 3, '%%%.2x', 6, &#91;Ord&#40;Sp^&#41;&#93;&#41;;
            Inc&#40;Rp, 2&#41;;
        End;
        Inc&#40;Rp&#41;;
        Inc&#40;Sp&#41;;
    End;
    SetLength&#40;Result, Rp - PChar&#40;Result&#41;&#41;;
End;
&#123;..............................................................................&#125;

&#123;..............................................................................&#125;
Function PosEx&#40;Const SubStr, S &#58; AnsiString; Offset &#58; Cardinal&#41; &#58; Integer;

Var
    i &#58; PChar;
Begin
    If &#40;offset <1> length&#40;s&#41;&#41; Then
    Begin
        Result &#58;= 0;
        Exit
    End;

    i &#58;= StrPos&#40;@s&#91;offset&#93;,@substr&#91;1&#93;&#41;;
    If i = Nil Then
        PosEx &#58;= 0
    Else
        PosEx &#58;= Succ&#40;i-PChar&#40;s&#41;&#41;;
End;
&#123;..............................................................................&#125;

&#123;..............................................................................&#125;
Function  TranslateText&#40;Const ATextIn        &#58; AnsiString;
                        Var   ATextOut       &#58; AnsiString;
                        Const ALanguagePair  &#58; Integer&#41; &#58; Boolean;
Var
    SendTxt  &#58; AnsiString;
    Response &#58; TStringList;
    s        &#58; AnsiString;
    a,b      &#58; integer;
Begin
      Result   &#58;= False;
      Response &#58;= TStringList.Create;
      Try
          SendTxt &#58;= 'http&#58;//translate.google.com/translate_t?text=' +
                     HTTPEncode&#40;ATextIn&#41; +
                     '&langpair=' +
                     cLanguagePairList&#91;ALanguagePair&#93;;

          If Not HttpGetText&#40;SendTxt,Response&#41; Then Exit;
          s &#58;= Response.Text;
          a &#58;= PosEx&#40;'>',s,Pos&#40;'id=suggestion>',s&#41;&#41;;
          b &#58;= PosEx&#40;'</textarea>',s,a&#41;;
          ATextOut &#58;= Copy&#40;s,a+1,b-a-1&#41;;
          Result &#58;= True;
      Finally
          Response.Free;
      End;
End;
&#123;..............................................................................&#125;

&#123;..............................................................................&#125;
End.

It most likely won't work on languages that have UniCode characters that are
not ascii 8 bit in them due to it using normal strings, but it works ok for
the others

I have also included some constants for the language from-to pairs (a few of them, not all)

enjoy
cheers,
Paul