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CL-QuickTranslate

As present, you may have noticed that the Web version of Google Translate opens with standard European language pairs by default (none of which you may EVER use) , neither nowhere in the Languages menu is there the possibility to set default pair languages for translation , nor are the last used pairs synced to your account, which leaves you with the boring alternative to navigate and select them from the drop-down menu or bookmark their syntax appended url for quick future use , and as a frequent user it might be a bit more painful to keep changing them.

To save time, this program offers a quick solution to use one liners to achieve the same goal , and with the possibility to fully automate translations using batch scrips or any desired programming / scripting language, quite handy for translating simple words/sentences or file contents to a desired language.

Installation

Download and add to path. Running Qtranslate.exe -v should print the current version number.

Syntax and Usage:

Parameter	Function	Default value
-s	Sets a text input. Text containing white spaces should be enclosed in double-quotes.	Null
-l	Sets the destination language using the desired ISO prefix . The Source language is will be auto detected.	None The prefix must be specified.
-o	Specifies the path and name of the translated file to export a translation. The translated text is printed to the standard output by default. Saving Prefixes : %l - Language ISO Prefix. %f - Filename.	A new file with a unique Random integer of filetype : .txt
-f	Specifies the path and file name of the file to be translated. Long filenames should be enclosed in double-quotes. .txt, .lrc, .rtf, .md, .ini	none
-ver -version -v	Print the current version and build information.	none
/debug	Sets up running in debug mode. If you're unsure about any response or errors you can use this flag to print all the behind the scene events. This parameter does parse any argument.	none

Commandline Preview [Click to reveal hidden contents.]

Demo

Known Issues

1. Unicode and Extended ASCII characters rendered wrongly in console window. (Displayed as question mark `?`)
[Expand Fix]

Although CL-QuickTranslate writes output based on the current console code page, which depends on a system's locale by default, the current code page may handle only a subset of available Unicode characters, so if you try to display characters that are not mapped to the current code page, the console won't be able to render or represent them accurately. To fix this, you can change to an active code page which may allow rendering them using chcp by running the command chcp 65001 && Cl-Quicktranslate.exe ... However, if you want to render Unicode output reliably , set the console font to a non-raster or TrueType font such as Consolas or Lucida Console then use logical shift or redirectional operators to parse the unicode output to file handles. Or even better, use the -o switch which is provided as a parameter to help you to parse the output of a command to a local file that you specify.
Example :
CL-QuickTranslate.exe -s "hello world" -l ru -o "%l-HelloWorld.txt"
> Saved to file : ru-HelloWorld.txt

Commandline Notes

For the -l switch , all standards are backward compatible and fall back to the ISO 639-1 language prefix which is normally used by the Google Translate API , meaning that the command: Qtranslate.exe -s 'Noche Oscura' -l 'Albanian' (Using a native name) would be the same as running : Qtranslate.exe -s 'Noche Oscura' -l 'sq' (Using the ISO 639-1 prefix) , also the same as running: Qtranslate.exe -s 'Noche Oscura' -l 'sqi' (Using the ISO 639-2/T prefix) and also the same as Qtranslate.exe -s 'Noche Oscura' -l 'alb' (Using the ISO 639-2/B prefix)

The -o switch supports saving with specified prefixes as a substitute for special long names. :

prefix	Long name
%l	The used ISO 639-1 language prefix.
%f	Used Filename without file extension.

Example :
CL-QuickTranslate.exe -f "Pc Maintenance Guide.txt" -l sw -o "%l_%f.txt"
> Saved to file : SW_Pc Maintenance Guide.txt

Some ISO codes cheat sheet [Click to reveal hidden contents.]

All languages standard may be used with the -l switch to set the destination language for translation. The source language is auto detected by default. see full list at :https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwixuKmY9_LrAhVFCxoKHUgsB1kQFjAAegQIAxAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcloud.google.com%2Ftranslate%2Fdocs%2Flanguages&usg=AOvVaw0DS2aRvqlazR86JXJI1fsn

	ISO language name	ISO 639-1	ISO 639-2/T	ISO 639-2/B
1	English	en	eng	eng
2	Afrikaans	af	afr	afr
3	Albanian	sq	sqi	alb
4	Amharic	am	amh	amh
5	Arabic	ar	ara	ara
6	Armenian	hy	hye	arm
7	Azerbaijani	az	aze	-
8	Basque	eu	eus	baq
9	Belarusian	be	bel	bel
10	Bengali	bn	ben	ben
11	Bosnian	bs	bos	bos
12	Bulgarian	bg	bul	bul
13	Catalan,Valencian	ca	cat	cat
14	Cebuano	ceb	ceb	ceb
15	Chichewa	ny	nya	nya
16	Corsican	co	cos	cos
17	Croatian	hr	hrv	hrv
18	czech	cs	ces	cze
19	Danish	da	dan	dan
20	Dutch, Flemish	nl	nld	dut
21	Esperanto	eo	epo	epo
22	Estonian	et	est	est
23	Filipino	tl	tl	tl
24	Finnish	fi	fin	fin
25	french	fr	fra	fre
26	Frisian	fy	fry	fry
27	Georgian	gl	glg	glg
28	German	de	deu	ger
29	Haitian,Haitian Creole	ht	hat	hat
30	Hausa	ha	hau	hau
31	Hawaiian	haw	haw	haw
32	Hmong	hmn	hmn	hmn
33	Hungarian	hu	hun	hun
34	Icelandic	is	isl	ice
35	Igbo	ig	ibo	ibo
36	Indonesian	id	ind	ind
37	Irish	ga	gle	gle
38	Italian	it	ita	ita
39	Khmer	km	km	km
40	Latin	la	lat	lat
41	Latvian	lv	lav	lav
42	Lithuanian	lt	lit	lit
43	Luxembourgish	lb	ltz	ltz
44	Malagasy	mg	mlg	mlg
45	Malay	ms	msa	msa
46	Maltese	mt	mlt	mlt
47	Maori	mi	mri	mao
48	Norwegian	no	nor	nor
49	Polish	pl	pol	pol
50	Portuguese	pt	por	por
51	Romanian,moldavian	ro	ron	rum
52	Sesotho	st	sot	sot
53	Slovak	sk	slk	slk
54	Slovenian	sl	slv	slv
55	Somali	so	som	som
56	Spanish,Castilian	es	spa	spa
57	Swahili, Kiswahili	sw	swa	swa
58	Swedish	sv	swe	swe
59	Turkish	tr	tur	tur
60	Uzbek	uz	uzb	uzb
61	Vietnamese	vi	vie	vie
62	Welsh	cy	cym	wel
63	Xhosa	xh	xho	xho
64	Yoruba	yo	yor	yor
65	Zulu	zu	zul	zul
...

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