Google Translate translates quote and single quote characters

[Dave]

Hi,

I'm using Google Translate API, but when I try to translate a string
that contains some quotes or single quotes (" or '), it translate
these charactes to its HTML code (" ').

Do you know if Google Translate do the same with other characters? Is
there any option not to translate these characters?

Thanks!

[Jeremy Geerdes]

The API assumes that your translation will be utilized in a web context; thus, it defaults to rendering strings in HTML. However, if you're not concerned about HTML, you can use the format parameter to specify that your string is plain text. In this case, it will not translate the quote and other marks to HTML character references.

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[Dave]

Hi!

Thanks for that, but if I want to translate this text (as a text, not
as HTML),

"<p>text 'bold' html</p>"

Google Translate returns this:

"<p> text 'bold' html </ p>"

You can notice that there are extra spaces.

The problem is that I can't translate it as an HTML, because I have
this text in a textarea, so if I translate it as HTML, google
translate will replace the character \n and translate " to &quot; and
' to &#39; (I don't know if it does the same to other characters...),
and I need the original characters...

I'm getting a bit crazy with this... lol

Thanks!

On 7 sep, 12:51, Jeremy Geerdes <jrgeer...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The API assumes that your translation will be utilized in a web context; thus, it defaults to rendering strings in HTML. However, if you're not concerned about HTML, you can use the format parameter to specify that your string is plain text. In this case, it will not translate the quote and other marks to HTML character references.
>
> Jeremy R. Geerdes
> Effective website design & development
> Des Moines, IA
>
> For more information or a project quote:http://jgeerdes.home.mchsi.com

> jrgeer...@gmail.com