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Welcome to the TranslatorDiscordBot wiki!
See https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html?highlight=reply# for Discord.py details
Credit to Wade Bourne (replit: @AllAwesome497) for the Discord bot replit template/starter code for the project.

Current Features:

• Japanese to English Translation
  • User enters command into Discord chat: !translate [Japanese text]
  • Bot parses Japanese text & sends request to DeepL API for translation
  • Bot parses English translation from DeepL API response
  • Bot replies to user: [Translated English text]
• English to Japanese Translation
  • !translate function will check if the given string is able to be encoded as ASCII (covering English letters & most common special characters).
    • Fixed previous issue, by changing alphanumeric check to ASCII check - Japanese is considered alphanumeric by python.
    • Known issue: Due to this method of checking language, input containing emojis is automatically considered Japanese.
  • If so, source & target language headers will change to EN and JP respectively, before the API call.
  • Bot will return Japanese translation of entered English text
• Translation via reply
  • User replies to Japanese message with: !translate
  • Bot parses Japanese text from the original message & translates to English

Potential Improvements:

• Private Translation
  • To reduce clutter and increase user privacy, integrate !translate as a "slash command" (which is hidden from Discord chat)
  • Rather than publicly replying, Bot returns translation as a server notification for the user who entered the command
  • Roadblocks: Discord.py does not support "slash commands", may need to switch to a different Discord library
• Pronunciation Lookup
  • Forvo API Integration
  • User enters command: !pronounce [Japanese word]
  • Bot sends request to Forvo API
  • Bot returns pronunciation audio to the Discord chat
  • Drawbacks: Pronunciation audio limited to single words & common phrases; Impossible to integrate with "Private Translation"