Hi, I was having a look at this snippet: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Google_Translate and it turns out that it doesn't work if the result contains non-ASCII chars. Does anybody know how to fix it?
alvherre=# select gtranslate('en', 'es', 'he'); ERROR: plpython: function "gtranslate" could not create return value DETALLE: <type 'exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError'>: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe9' in position 0: ordinal not in range(128) By adding a plpy.log() call you can see that the answer is "él": LOG: (u'\xe9l',) I guess it needs some treatment similar to the one in this function: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Strip_accents_from_strings For completeness, here is the code: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION gtranslate(src text, target text, phrase text) RETURNS text LANGUAGE plpythonu AS $$ import re import urllib import simplejson as json class UrlOpener(urllib.FancyURLopener): version = "py-gtranslate/1.0" base_uri = "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate" default_params = {'v': '1.0'} def translate(src, to, phrase): args = default_params.copy() args.update({ 'langpair': '%s%%7C%s' % (src, to), 'q': urllib.quote_plus(phrase), }) argstring = '%s' % ('&'.join(['%s=%s' % (k,v) for (k,v) in args.iteritems()])) resp = json.load(UrlOpener().open('%s?%s' % (base_uri, argstring))) try: return resp['responseData']['translatedText'] except: # should probably warn about failed translation return phrase return translate(src, target, phrase) $$; -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers