kcston Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 I’m writing a simple Autoit script to translate text from Japanese to English using Google Translate API key If I enter the following directly into a browser, it works correctly. (Actual API key not included here) https://translation.googleapis.com/language/translate/v2?key=MyGoogleTranslateAPIkey&source=ja&target=en&q=モーションシステム Result: { "data": { "translations": [ { "translatedText": "motion system" } ] } } However, if I do it using the following code (Autoit v3), I get garbled text instead. Dim $Target $Target= InetRead ("https://translation.googleapis.com/language/translate/v2?key=MyGoogleTranslateAPIkey&source=ja&target=en&q=モーションシステム") $Target = BinaryToString ($Target, 4) ConsoleWrite($Target) Result: { "data": { "translations": [ { "translatedText": "[ VVX e" } ] } } Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jchd Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 What is the console output of the following script? Local $Target= InetRead ("https://translation.googleapis.com/language/translate/v2?key=MyGoogleTranslateAPIkey&source=ja&target=en&q=モーションシステム") ConsoleWrite($Target & @LF) This wonderful site allows debugging and testing regular expressions (many flavors available). An absolute must have in your bookmarks.Another excellent RegExp tutorial. Don't forget downloading your copy of up-to-date pcretest.exe and pcregrep.exe hereRegExp tutorial: enough to get startedPCRE v8.33 regexp documentation latest available release and currently implemented in AutoIt beta. SQLitespeed is another feature-rich premier SQLite manager (includes import/export). Well worth a try.SQLite Expert (freeware Personal Edition or payware Pro version) is a very useful SQLite database manager.An excellent eBook covering almost every aspect of SQLite3: a must-read for anyone doing serious work.SQL tutorial (covers "generic" SQL, but most of it applies to SQLite as well)A work-in-progress SQLite3 tutorial. Don't miss other LxyzTHW pages!SQLite official website with full documentation (may be newer than the SQLite library that comes standard with AutoIt) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kcston Posted December 28, 2022 Author Share Posted December 28, 2022 48 minutes ago, jchd said: What is the console output of the following script? Local $Target= InetRead ("https://translation.googleapis.com/language/translate/v2?key=MyGoogleTranslateAPIkey&source=ja&target=en&q=モーションシステム") ConsoleWrite($Target & @LF) Thanks for the quick response, jchd. Here's the result using ConsoleWrite($Target & @LF) Apparently, there is no change. { "data": { "translations": [ { "translatedText": "[ VVX e" } ] } } Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kcston Posted December 28, 2022 Author Share Posted December 28, 2022 Sorry, I did not know how to delete the just posted reply. Here's what ConsoleWrite() returned: 0x7B0A20202264617461223A207B0A20202020227472616E736C6174696F6E73223A205B0A2020202020207B0A2020202020202020227472616E736C6174656454657874223A20225B205656582065220A2020202020207D0A202020205D0A20207D0A7D0A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jchd Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 (edited) Then the result received isn't binary, or @error tells you things didn't work well. What is @error after InetRead? Also try setting $INET_BINARYTRANSFER + $INET_FORCEBYPASS in InetRead invokation. If that still doesn't work, maybe the API is expecting UTF8 data, which your browser uses internally. Edited December 28, 2022 by jchd This wonderful site allows debugging and testing regular expressions (many flavors available). An absolute must have in your bookmarks.Another excellent RegExp tutorial. Don't forget downloading your copy of up-to-date pcretest.exe and pcregrep.exe hereRegExp tutorial: enough to get startedPCRE v8.33 regexp documentation latest available release and currently implemented in AutoIt beta. SQLitespeed is another feature-rich premier SQLite manager (includes import/export). Well worth a try.SQLite Expert (freeware Personal Edition or payware Pro version) is a very useful SQLite database manager.An excellent eBook covering almost every aspect of SQLite3: a must-read for anyone doing serious work.SQL tutorial (covers "generic" SQL, but most of it applies to SQLite as well)A work-in-progress SQLite3 tutorial. Don't miss other LxyzTHW pages!SQLite official website with full documentation (may be newer than the SQLite library that comes standard with AutoIt) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jchd Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 (edited) Try converting the request string to UTF8 before sending it. Edited December 28, 2022 by jchd This wonderful site allows debugging and testing regular expressions (many flavors available). An absolute must have in your bookmarks.Another excellent RegExp tutorial. Don't forget downloading your copy of up-to-date pcretest.exe and pcregrep.exe hereRegExp tutorial: enough to get startedPCRE v8.33 regexp documentation latest available release and currently implemented in AutoIt beta. SQLitespeed is another feature-rich premier SQLite manager (includes import/export). Well worth a try.SQLite Expert (freeware Personal Edition or payware Pro version) is a very useful SQLite database manager.An excellent eBook covering almost every aspect of SQLite3: a must-read for anyone doing serious work.SQL tutorial (covers "generic" SQL, but most of it applies to SQLite as well)A work-in-progress SQLite3 tutorial. Don't miss other LxyzTHW pages!SQLite official website with full documentation (may be newer than the SQLite library that comes standard with AutoIt) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kcston Posted December 28, 2022 Author Share Posted December 28, 2022 7 hours ago, jchd said: Try converting the request string to UTF8 before sending it. You are right, jchd. That seems to be the problem. If I paste the whole URL including the Japanese text into Edge, it automatically converts the Japanese text into UTF8 (?). If I then copy it into InetRead(), it works and returns the correct result. So, I need to convert text to UTF8 first before putting it into InetRead(). Is _WinAPI_WideCharToMultiByte() the function to do the job? It seems not to be an Autoit built-in function but requires <WinAPIConv.au3> but I could not find the file despite all the efforts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jchd Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 Easy to do: Local $sUCS2 = "モーションシステム" Local $sTUF8 = BinaryToString(StringToBinary($sUCS2, 4), 1) This wonderful site allows debugging and testing regular expressions (many flavors available). An absolute must have in your bookmarks.Another excellent RegExp tutorial. Don't forget downloading your copy of up-to-date pcretest.exe and pcregrep.exe hereRegExp tutorial: enough to get startedPCRE v8.33 regexp documentation latest available release and currently implemented in AutoIt beta. SQLitespeed is another feature-rich premier SQLite manager (includes import/export). Well worth a try.SQLite Expert (freeware Personal Edition or payware Pro version) is a very useful SQLite database manager.An excellent eBook covering almost every aspect of SQLite3: a must-read for anyone doing serious work.SQL tutorial (covers "generic" SQL, but most of it applies to SQLite as well)A work-in-progress SQLite3 tutorial. Don't miss other LxyzTHW pages!SQLite official website with full documentation (may be newer than the SQLite library that comes standard with AutoIt) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kcston Posted December 29, 2022 Author Share Posted December 29, 2022 Perfect! You have saved me hours of wandering around. Much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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