今天更新Google Play 商店裡的App 顯示下面的訊息，叫我要把其他語言裡更新了什麼訊息都補齊，這個請「千萬」不要使用人工手動去翻，純手工去翻是生產力低、無聊又花時間的行為，建議的解法是要shell script ＋translate-shell。
shell script 很多，除了python 好用之外，常見的還有 unix 內建的bash shell script. 這次我選擇的是內建的，要用內建需要先學一下 bash shell 的 array 還有 loop 怎麼使用。
鳥哥loop 用法教學：
http://linux.vbird.org/linux_basic/0340bashshell-scripts.php#for
鳥哥array 用法教學：
http://linux.vbird.org/linux_basic/0340bashshell-scripts.php#array
接下來安裝 translate-shell
https://github.com/soimort/translate-shell
我是使用 Mac OS X, 需要另外再按裝 gawk, 只要使用指令：
brew install gawk
最後我的script 長醬子：
#!/bin/bash
filename="play_app_output.txt"
english="play_app_english.txt"
echo "" > $filename
cat $english >> $filename
echo "" >> $filename
function printit(){
lang=
echo "<$lang>" >> $filename
trans -b :$lang file://$english >> $filename
echo "</$lang>" >> $filename
}
eat[1]="ar"
eat[2]="be"
max_nu=2
for (( i=1; i<=${max_nu}; i=i+1 ))
do
printit ${eat[$i]}
done
要被翻的英文：
allow login facebook account by browser.
script 執行完的結果：
<en-US>
allow login facebook account by browser.
</en-US>
<ar>
.حفصتملا قيرط نع كوبسيفلا باسح لوخدلا ليجست حامسلا
</ar>
<be>
дазволіць уліковы запіс Увайсці facebook браўзэра.
</be>
後記：
bash shell script 寫起來是很快，也可以完成「大部份」的需求，但後來想用來解決 android strings 裡裡翻譯，bash shell script用起來綁手綁腳，限制太多，最後還是改寫成python…, 所以一開始就應該用python 寫，才省時間。
改用python，對字串和對檔案的處理就變的很簡單。執行外部指令可以使用：
from subprocess import call tmp_input_file = "android_trans_input.tmp" tmp_output_file = "android_trans_output.tmp" trans_para_pattern = "trans -b -s en :%s -i %s -o %s" % (lang, tmp_input_file, tmp_output_file) call(trans_para_pattern, shell=True)
我使用的副程式：
def google_trans(string_value, lang):
tmp_input_file = "android_trans_input.tmp"
outfile = open(tmp_input_file, 'w')
outfile.write(string_value)
outfile.close()
from subprocess import call
tmp_output_file = "android_trans_output.tmp"
trans_para_pattern = "trans -b -s en :%s -i %s -o %s" % (lang, tmp_input_file, tmp_output_file)
#call(["trans", trans_para_pattern])
call(trans_para_pattern, shell=True)
#call(["ls", "-al"])
#call("ls android_t*", shell=True)
#call(["pwd"])
infile = open(tmp_output_file,"r")
total_line = ""
for in_line in infile:
in_line = in_line.strip()
total_line += in_line
infile.close()
call("rm android*.tmp", shell=True)
return total_line
def convert_trans(filename, lang):
#filename = "Localizable.strings"
filename_ext = splitext(filename)[1]
#filename_output = "%s%s" % (splitext(filename)[0], filename_ext)
filename_output = filename
directory_name = "./values-%s/" % (lang)
directory_name = directory_name.replace("zh-", "zh-r")
_createFolder(directory_name )
outfile = open(directory_name + filename_output, 'w')
infile = open(filename)
total_line = ""
process_mode = "ios"
if filename_ext == ".xml":
process_mode = "android"
delimiter = "="
if process_mode == "android":
delimiter = ">"
string_pattern = '%s = "%s";\n'
for in_line in infile:
out_line = in_line
if is_translata_target(in_line, process_mode):
# for translate item.
if process_mode == "android":
string_android_tag_name="string"
if '</item>' in in_line and '<item' in in_line:
string_android_tag_name="item"
string_pattern = '%s>%s</'+ string_android_tag_name +'>\n'
string_key = in_line.split(delimiter)[0]
string_value = find_between(in_line,">","</")
string_value = encrypt_escape_word(string_value, process_mode)
string_trans = google_trans(string_value, lang)
string_trans = decrypt_escape_word(string_trans, process_mode, lang)
out_line = string_pattern % (string_key.rstrip(),string_trans)
#print out_line
if not is_skip_translata_key(in_line, process_mode):
outfile.write(out_line)
#total_line = u'%s%s' % (total_line,out_line)
total_line += out_line
infile.close()
outfile.close()
心得是效果滿好的，還可以調整那些規則下的文字不要去翻譯。
如果你會處理到 lang=”ar” 或 lang=”fa”，記得要安裝一下 FirBiDi:
指令：
brew install fribidi
資料來源：
http://macappstore.org/fribidi/