how to preserve newlines?

[egasimus]

Hi everyone. As a part of some automation stuff I'm working on in
order to make my life easier, I'm trying to translate a block of text
using, well, a lot of stuff. AutoIt3, Firefox, MozRepl, JavaScript,
and, ultimately, Google Translate API. What it all boils down to is a
page containing a single textarea and button, which POSTs my source
text to, for example, http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&langpair=en%7Cru.

So the button gets clicked, the text get sent, and the browser goes to
that URL and shows the text representation of a responseData object.
This text gets read through JS, stripped, and made use of. However, in
the translatedText field, all the newlines from the source text are
gone without a trace, and this bothers me greatly, as I'd rather keep
them. Any ideas how to preserve newlines when using the API?

[Jeremy Geerdes]

The failure to preserve newlines is a result of the API assuming it's dealing with HTML, which does not require newlines. If you want to preserve them, you can specify format=text, but that will result in the API attempting to translate any HTML markup that you have in the string. Alternatively, you could replace any newlines with some HTML tag that you will then replace with newlines after the translation is returned.

Jeremy R. Geerdes
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[egasimus]

That'll do. HTML markup is rarely, if ever, encountered in the texts
I'm translating. Thanks a lot (:

On Sep 9, 2:30 pm, Jeremy Geerdes <jrgeer...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The failure to preserve newlines is a result of the API assuming it's dealing with HTML, which does not require newlines. If you want to preserve them, you can specify format=text, but that will result in the API attempting to translate any HTML markup that you have in the string. Alternatively, you could replace any newlines with some HTML tag that you will then replace with newlines after the translation is returned.
>
> 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