Google service doesn't work in libtranslate

I can confirm this fix is still required and works in Hardy. Before applying this gnome-translate would just write the untranslated text in the "Translated text" box.

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The patch for Google have changed a bit:

In debian/patches/05_services.patch

- <pre-marker text="&lt;textarea"/>
+ <pre-marker text="&lt;span title="/>
+ <!--<pre-marker text="result_box"/>-->
        <pre-marker text="&gt;"/>
- <post-marker text="&lt;/textarea&gt;"/>
+ <post-marker text="&lt;/span&gt;"/>

This bug is duplicate of: 511474 523393 529689

somehow mariodebian's solution didn't work for me

what worked for me was

 #2

to solve the problem

sudo gedit /usr/share/libtranslate/services.xml

then look for the lines containing

<text-translation url="http://www.google.com/translate_t?text=${text:escape}&amp;langpair=${from}|${to}&amp;ie=utf8&amp;oe=utf8">
 <pre-marker text="&lt;div id="/>
 <pre-marker text="result_box"/>
 <pre-marker text="&gt;"/>
 <post-marker text="&lt;/div&gt;"/>
      </text-translation>

and replace them with

<text-translation url="http://www.google.com/translate_t?text=${text:escape}&amp;langpair=${from}|${to}&amp;ie=utf8&amp;oe=utf8">
     <pre-marker text="id="/>
     <pre-marker text="result_box"/>
     <pre-marker text="mouseover"/>
     <pre-marker text="&gt;"/>
     <post-marker text="&lt;"/>
       </text-translation>

save and restart gnome-translate

farchumbre, thank you for your help on this bug and making Ubuntu better. The next step is to take your proposed solution and make it into a patch ( https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/HowToFix ) for others to test with and, barring exception, merged into libtranslate.

This bug was fixed in the package libtranslate - 0.99-0ubuntu8

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libtranslate (0.99-0ubuntu8) natty; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/05_services.patch:
    - update services.xml, taken from Fedora
      (LP: #124287, #319110, #483423)
  * debian/patches/08_fix_modules_build.patch:
    - fix module build (LP: #419793)
  * convert to source format 3.0 (quilt)
 -- Andreas Moog <email address hidden> Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:31:09 +0100

Currently libtranslate with google as a service returns erroneous markup:

" onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#ebeff9'" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#fff'">

To fix this edit:

sudo vim /usr/share/libtranslate/services.xml

And set your pre/post markers to this:

        <pre-marker text="&lt;span title="/>
        <pre-marker text="onmouseover="/>
        <pre-marker text="onmouseout="/>
        <pre-marker text="&gt;"/>
        <post-marker text="&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;"/>