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#!/bin/bash
# http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#The-Set-Builtin
set -o errexit
function error()
{
    echo "${scriptname}: error:" "${@}" > /dev/stderr
    exit 1
}
function introduceglobals()
{
    script="$(readlink --canonicalize "${0}")"
    scriptdir="$(dirname "${script}")"
    scriptname="$(basename "${script}")"
    for arg in "${@}"; do
        case "${arg}" in
        -h|--help)
            cat << EOF
usage: ${scriptname} [OPTIONS] SPEECH...
Translate text from one human language to another
N O T E
    This script uses http://translate.google.com service to convert
    text to speach
FIXME
    Not Implemented
Example of Usage:
    $ translate -f en -t ko hello
    $ translate -f ru -t en Привет, дружище
    $ translate -f ko -t ru 안녕하세요
EOF
            exit
            ;;
        esac
    done
}
introduceglobals "${@}"
from='en'
to='ru'
text="${1}"
# translate 'Hello, "whatever" how are you?'
# [[["Здравствуй, \"все\" как дела?","Hello, \"whatever\" how are you?","Zdravstvuĭ, \"vse\" kak dela?",""]],,"en",,[["Здравствуй,",[5],1,0,502,0,2,0],["\"все\"",[6],1,0,545,2,5,0],["как дела?",[7],1,0,493,5,8,0]],[["Hello ,",5,[["Здравствуй,",502,1,0],["Здравствуйте",0,1,0]],[[0,6]],"Hello, \"whatever\" how are you?"],["\" whatever \"",6,[["\"все\"",545,1,0]],[[7,17]],""],["how are you ?",7,[["как дела?",493,1,0]],[[18,30]],""]],,,[["en"]],73]
#
# s/^\[\[\[//
# "Здравствуй, \"все\" как дела?","Hello, \"whatever\" how are you?","Zdravstvuĭ, \"vse\" kak dela?",""]],,"en",,[["Здравствуй,",[5],1,0,502,0,2,0],["\"все\"",[6],1,0,545,2,5,0],["как дела?",[7],1,0,493,5,8,0]],[["Hello ,",5,[["Здравствуй,",502,1,0],["Здравствуйте",0,1,0]],[[0,6]],"Hello, \"whatever\" how are you?"],["\" whatever \"",6,[["\"все\"",545,1,0]],[[7,17]],""],["how are you ?",7,[["как дела?",493,1,0]],[[18,30]],""]],,,[["en"]],73]
#
# s/","/\n"/
# "Здравствуй, \"все\" как дела?
# "Hello, \"whatever\" how are you?","Zdravstvuĭ, \"vse\" kak dela?",""]],,"en",,[["Здравствуй,",[5],1,0,502,0,2,0],["\"все\"",[6],1,0,545,2,5,0],["как дела?",[7],1,0,493,5,8,0]],[["Hello ,",5,[["Здравствуй,",502,1,0],["Здравствуйте",0,1,0]],[[0,6]],"Hello, \"whatever\" how are you?"],["\" whatever \"",6,[["\"все\"",545,1,0]],[[7,17]],""],["how are you ?",7,[["как дела?",493,1,0]],[[18,30]],""]],,,[["en"]],73]
#
# s/^"//
# Здравствуй, \"все\" как дела?
# "Hello, \"whatever\" how are you?","Zdravstvuĭ, \"vse\" kak dela?",""]],,"en",,[["Здравствуй,",[5],1,0,502,0,2,0],["\"все\"",[6],1,0,545,2,5,0],["как дела?",[7],1,0,493,5,8,0]],[["Hello ,",5,[["Здравствуй,",502,1,0],["Здравствуйте",0,1,0]],[[0,6]],"Hello, \"whatever\" how are you?"],["\" whatever \"",6,[["\"все\"",545,1,0]],[[7,17]],""],["how are you ?",7,[["как дела?",493,1,0]],[[18,30]],""]],,,[["en"]],73]
#
# s/\\"/"/g
# Здравствуй, "все" как дела?
# "Hello, \"whatever\" how are you?","Zdravstvuĭ, \"vse\" kak dela?",""]],,"en",,[["Здравствуй,",[5],1,0,502,0,2,0],["\"все\"",[6],1,0,545,2,5,0],["как дела?",[7],1,0,493,5,8,0]],[["Hello ,",5,[["Здравствуй,",502,1,0],["Здравствуйте",0,1,0]],[[0,6]],"Hello, \"whatever\" how are you?"],["\" whatever \"",6,[["\"все\"",545,1,0]],[[7,17]],""],["how are you ?",7,[["как дела?",493,1,0]],[[18,30]],""]],,,[["en"]],73]
curl http://translate.google.com/translate_a/t \
    --silent \
    --user-agent 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/14.0.835.202 Safari/535.1' \
    --get \
    --data-urlencode 'client=t' \
    --data-urlencode "hl=${from}" \
    --data-urlencode "tl=${to}" \
    --data-urlencode "text=${text}" \
        | sed -e 's/^\[\[\[//' -e 's/","/\n"/' -e 's/^"//' -e 's/\\"/"/g' \
    | head --lines=1