Fanyi Translation Script
Fanyi is a simple translation script that employs the free Microsoft Translator API in order to translate a newline-separated text file, line by line, into almost any language. I wrote it to facilitate an internationalization proof-of-concept. Of course it isn’t meant for production use since the quality of the translations will be poor.
The script allows for a custom list of excluded words or phrases, so you can exempt from translation your brand names, HTML entities, and other untranslatable strings. Since each line is treated as a single entity, excluded strings are skipped, then merged back in.
Example
Translate a three-line file into Chinese, excluding HTML entities and two brand names.
Input:
Acme company product home page Click <b>here</b> to login Read about Acme's new product, the Cornballer!
Output:
Acme 公司产品主页 点击<b>这里</b>登录 阅读Acme的新产品, Cornballer!
Usage Synopsis
Single file conversion:
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perl fanyi.pl input_filename.txt output_filename.txt |
Multiple file conversion recursively through a directory tree:
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find /path/to/target_directory -type f -exec sh -c ' perl /path/to/fanyi.pl $0 $0.new && mv $0.new $0 ' {} \; |
Check out the project on Github.
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