使用Google Translate在PHP中进行编码错误

Question

I have some text which I need to translate into Japanese.

Translate text, webpage, or document

Google Translate returns the string as:

翻訳テキスト、 Webページ、またはドキュメント

When I am writing that text to a file (ja.po), it looks like:

–|–óƒeƒLƒXƒgA Webƒy[ƒWA‚Ü‚½‚̓hƒLƒ…ƒƒ“ƒg

What would be the error?

I am using poeditor.exe to view the file. I am not using any encoding function at present.

for(/*extracting from the trnslated string array*/)
{
    $pattern = "/msgid \"".preg_quote($id, '/')."\"(\r?\n)msgstr \"\"/";
    $string = str_replace('"', '\"', $string);
    $replacement = "msgid \"$id\"\nmsgstr \"". $string . "\"";
    $res = preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $con);
    $con = $res;
}
file_put_contents("ja.po", $con);

Answer 1

It looks like the program you are using to read that file isn't understanding the encoding format that you wrote it out as. Are you using UTF8 all the way through? Maybe try http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.iconv.php to convert it to UTF8 if it is some other encoding.

Answer 2

How are you getting the string from Google and how are you writing it? Somewhere along the way it gets converted from UTF8 to latin1 I suppose. If you can figure out where it happens, use mb_convert_encoding to fix it.

BTW, the translated Japanese is pretty bad. ;)