> Hi! I'm having some problems correctly screenscraping and outputting
> e.g. Chinese characters from a Google translator search result. The
> output is always a garbled mess, not Chinese characters. German for
> instance works fine. Thanks for any hints...!!
> Some relevant parts from the PHP5:
> /******************/
> header ('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
> ...
> showResult( getTranslation('bird flu', 'zh-CN'), 'Chinese' );
> ...
> function getTranslation($q, $lang)
> {
> $out = '';
> // the Google page is supposed to be UTF-8 too:
> $in = getFileText( "http://google.com/translate_t?langpair=en|" .
> urlencode($lang) . "&text=".urlencode($q) );
> preg_match('/<div id=result_box dir=ltr>(.*?)<\/div>/', $in,
> $out);
> $translation = $out[1]; // garbled!
> $translation = trim($translation);
> $translation = utf8_encode($translation); // garbled with or
> without this line...
> return $translation;
> }
> /******************/
