Translate a selection

[Taitava]

I just created a simple shell command for opening Google Translate in a web browser, passing it the text that is selected in Obsidian.

• The shell command on Windows PowerShell: start "https://translate.google.fi/?hl=fi&sl=auto&tl=fi&op=translate&text={{selection}}" (note that you need to change tl=fi to your own language, e.g tl=en for English or tl=pt for Portuguese). Source language is auto, i.e. detected automatically.
• To make it available in the right click context menu in the editor, enable the Editor menu event:
  

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Things to develop further:

• As SC does not yet have an ability to do URL encoding (Future development of escaping variable values #95), it's possible that some text might break the URL. E.g. if the selected text would contain &, then I guess all text after & would be left out from the translation.
• Instead of opening a web browser, use Google Translate API to fetch the translation and then display it in an output modal.

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P.S. One translator plugin was mentioned in #92.

[FelipeRearden]

Thank you very much @Taitava !!!!!

Great idea for us learning new languages .

Note to myself: search about MacOS dictionary Apple script to open dictionary app using {{selection}} as input