Translate API choking on ampersand '&'

[Sean Busa]

We're using the paid translation api, currently I have an instance where we're passing in a string that has latin characters and unicode korean or japanese.

in the Latin Alpha there is an ampersand included in the company name. (i.e.  B&K 高精度)

The API returns 'B' as the translation.

I set the source to ko or ja, and the target = en.

When i remove the ampersand and pass the string back it returns correctly: B&K Precision

This is going to be run on an automated process, therefore if we can avoid processing the string to remove and replace the ampersand it would be best for us.

 

Please help!

 

Thanks,

 

Sean

 

[WTHNoSpam]

Did you ever figure a way around this?  Using & to wrap the & doesn't seem to work either when it really should.

[WTHNoSpam]

BTW, I got it to work by using the UTF-8 code for ampersand - %26.

No reason why & shouldn't work though...  Bug.