So I'm trying to use a VBA code that I found to define a function that uses Google Translate to translate a string from any given language to another. It works fine in most cases, but when the input is a language with special characters, (ex: Chinese or Arabic) it doesn't work. Below is the code I'm using:
Public Function Translate(strInput As String, strFromSourceLanguage As String, strToTargetLanguage As String) As String
Dim strURL As String
Dim objHTTP As Object
Dim objHTML As Object
Dim objDivs As Object, objDiv As Object
Dim strTranslated As String
' send query to web page
strURL = "https://translate.google.com/m?hl=" & strFromSourceLanguage & _
"&sl=" & strFromSourceLanguage & _
"&tl=" & strToTargetLanguage & _
"&ie=UTF-8&prev=_m&q=" & strInput
Set objHTTP = CreateObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP") 'late binding
objHTTP.Open "GET", strURL, False
objHTTP.setRequestHeader "User-Agent", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)"
objHTTP.send ""
' create an html document
Set objHTML = CreateObject("htmlfile")
With objHTML
.Open
.Write objHTTP.responsetext
.Close
End With
'Range("H1") = objHTTP.responsetext
Set objDivs = objHTML.getElementsByTagName("div")
For Each objDiv In objDivs
If objDiv.className = "result-container" Then
strTranslated = objDiv.innerText
Translate = strTranslated
End If
Next objDiv
Set objHTML = Nothing
Set objHTTP = Nothing
End Function
Also, here are some screenshots reflecting the situation:
