GUI for “Translate Shell”

[Tom]

@Tom

Workaround for the DeepL encoding issue
To get correct UTF-8 chars with DeepL simply append (without newline) this to the existing script in the Shell Script action (including the | at the beginning):
| perl -Mopen=':std',':encoding(UTF-8)' -pe '$_ =~ s/\\u(.{4})/chr(hex($1))/eg;'

Update 2018-06-05

In the section “Issues & Troubleshooting” of the post above I have mentioned a Perl workaround to make the Translate Shell script work correctly with non-ASCII chars from the DeepL engine.

As I have learned today, that workaround is no longer necessary if you use…

• the current version of the Translate Shell script (0.9.6.7) and
• install a current version of bash (4.4.23)

The bash that comes with macOS High Sierra is version 3.2.57. You can install bash 4 with Hombrew:

brew install bash

This will currently install bash 4.4.23. For the purpose of the macro it is not necessary to add anything to /etc/shells

If you prefer not to install bash 4 you can of course still use the Perl fix as shown in the post above.