Apache server provides a .htaccess file using which you can use to redirect URLs. For example, if you want to redirect all visitors to http://dallascao.com/cn/ to http://dallascao.com/en/, you can open the .htaccess file at the root, and then input:

RewriteRule ^cn\/?$ en\/

Translating the code in English, it means “Please replace ‘^cn\/?$’ with ‘en/’”. “^cn\/?$” is a regular expression, in which:

“^” matches the beginning of a string.
“$” matches the end.
“\” means “/” following it stands for “/” itself, not part of the grammar.
“?” means there can be one “/” or no “/”

So “^cn\/?$” matches two strings: “cn/” or “cn”. When visitors visit http://dallascao.com/cn/ (end with a slash) or http://dallascao.com/cn (end with no slash), they are redirected to http://dallascao.com/en/

Task two:

If you want to redirect all visitors to the root of http://dallascao.com/ to http://dallascao.com/en/, I can use this:

RewriteRule ^$ en\/

“^$” matches an empty string, meaning the root.

Task three:

Inputting the following code into the .htaccess of http://gt4t.net/, all visitors to http://gt4t.net/anything/ to http://gt4t.net/en/anything/. For example, visitors to http://gt4t.net/downloads/ will be redirected to http://gt4t.net/en/downloads.

RewriteRule ^(.*?)\/?$ \/en\/$1

“^(.*?)\/?$” means anything that either ends with one “/” or no “/”. In the second part, “\/en\/$1″, “$1″ stands for the 1st bracketed element in the previous string “^(.*?)\/?$” (in this case, the only bracketed element.). And it means replacing “ANYTHING” ending with “/” or no “/” with “/en/ANYTHING/”

By the way, if you want your redirection to be hidden, you can add the following option to the beginng .

Options +FollowSymLinks

In the example above, your visitors to http://gt4t.net/downloads is redirected to http://gt4t.net/gt4t_en/downloads/ but http://gt4t.net/downloads is still shown in the address bar.

Finally, here is is the complete .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymLinks
 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^gt4t.net$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.gt4t.net$
RewriteRule ^(.*?)\/?$ \/gt4t_en\/$1 [L]

Confused? Contact me if you have such a need. I will be happy to help you.

Translating a loooong list of country names, for example, can be very tiring and time-consuming. With GT4T, you just need to hit the shortcut and the names will be translated and correctly typed for you automatically.

GT4T can be used as a dictionary integrated into your applications.

Let’s face it. We need to check the on-line dictionaries quite often. When checking on-line dictionaries and you are tired of typing, do you copy the source word and paste it into a dictionary and then paste the translation back? With GT4T, you ONLY need to hit the shortcut and then the source word is replaced by its translation. You don’t even need to switch between windows!

Surprise!

At least until now, no one believes machine translation can be as good as human translation. But more often than you think, Google Translate can surprise you. Especially when you are stuck and your mind goes blank, hit the shortcut to see what Google Translate can provide. I won’t surprised if you find that answers from Google Translate can be really awesome.。

The idea of GT4T is to bring Google Translate to your fingertip and everything is just one hot key away. With GT4T, to use Google Translate, you no longer need to leave your document, open your browser, navigate to Google Translate website… just hit the hot key, and the translation is automatically typed into our document.

Still not sure? Check out this (testimonials page) and this (a discussion at proz.com) to see what other users have said about GT4T.

DISABLE() ;By RealityRipple at http://www.xtremevbtalk.com/archive/index.php/t-258725.html
{
  WinGet, id, ID, A
  menu:=DllCall("user32\GetSystemMenu","UInt",id,"UInt",0)
  DllCall("user32\DeleteMenu","UInt",menu,"UInt",0xF060,"UInt",0x0)
  WinGetPos,x,y,w,h,ahk_id %id%
  WinMove,ahk_id %id%,,%x%,%y%,%w%,% h-1
  WinMove,ahk_id %id%,,%x%,%y%,%w%,% h+1
}

Then insert DISABLE() after GUI, show command to call the function.

It is especially useful when you want to copy the content of webpage to your application, e.g. copying the content of a table on a webpage to Excel.

How to use:

Select some text and press CTRL+C, press down CTRL+SHIFT+V to paste the text to any text-based application, e.g. Microsoft Word.

You may also click on the  icon at your system tray to convert the clipboard into plain text and use the usual CTRL+V paste command to paste it.

PlainText is freeware. Please also check out Google Translate for Translators , a tool that seamlessly integrates Google Translate to Trados, Word and all text applications.

PlainText is developed with Autohotkeys:

GD4Word is a Word Macro and it only works inside Microsoft Word.

GD4Word is a free version of Google Translate for Translators, a program that seriously increases translation speed by adding Google Translate to TRADOS, Word and all text applications.

Click to download the installer that will automatically adds CTRL+ALT+D to your Word.

In case you want to do the coding yourself,

In Word 2003 and under,

Go to Tools–>Macros—>Visual Basic

Right click on “Normal”, and choose “Insert”—>”Module”

Paste the following code to the newly inserted module.

'code start

Public Declare Function ShellExecute Lib "shell32.dll" Alias "ShellExecuteA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal lpOperation As String, ByVal lpFile As String, ByVal lpParameters As String, ByVal lpDirectory As String, ByVal nShowCmd As Long) As Long
 
Sub Gdictionary()
 
Dim SLan As String
Dim TLan As String
Dim SText As String
Dim Gurl As String
 
SLan = "en"
TLan = "zh-CN"
SText = VBA.Trim(VBA.Replace(Selection.Text, Chr(13), ""))
 
Gurl = "http://www.google.com/dictionary?langpair=" + SLan + "|" + TLan + "&q=" + SText + "&hl=en&aq=f"
 
Debug.Print Gurl
 
ShellExecute 0&, vbNullString, Gurl, vbNullString, vbNullString, vbNormalFocus
 
End Sub
 
'code end

Then you can assign a keyboard shortcut to the macro: Gdictionary().

This code works when the source language uses ASCII characters only. If you want to make it work with pairs like Chinese to English, you will need to utf-8 encode your source text string.

“en”, “zh-CN” are shortcodes for the source language and the target language. You need to change them to your pair.

Google language short codes:

auto=Auto Detect,af=Afrikaans,sq=Albanian,ar=Arabic,be=Belarusian,bg=Bulgarian,ca=Catalan,zh-CN=Chinese (Simplified),zh-TW=Chinese (Traditional),hr=Croatian,cs=Czech,da=Danish,nl=Dutch,en=English,et=Estonian,tl=Filipino,fi=Finnis h,fr=French,gl=Galician,de=German,el=Greek,iw=Hebrew,hi=Hindi,hu=Hungarian,is=Icelandic,id=Indonesia n,ga=Irish,it=Italian,ja=Japanese,ko=Korean,lv=Latvian,lt=Lithuanian,mk=Macedonian,ms=Malay,mt=Malte se,no=Norwegian,fa=Persian,pl=Polish,pt=Portuguese,ro=Romanian,ru=Russian,sr=Serbian,sk=Slovak,sl=Sl ovenian,es=Spanish,sw=Swahili,sv=Swedish,th=Thai,tr=Turkish,uk=Ukrainian,vi=Vietnamese,cy=Welsh,yi=Y iddish

It works a charm! I really believe this is a correct use of MT, and applaud your inventiveness.

William [Bill] Gray, English/Norwegian/Danish/Bokmal Translator

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Why GT4T is useful

Google Translate for Translators (GT4T) is a translator’s productivity tool that seamlessly integrates Google Translate into all text applications. It can help you translate faster by replacing selected source text of your choice with translations from Google.

GT4T pro works in all applications. GT4T pro is an unobstrusive stand-alone Windows application. After running it in the system tray, you can then use the system hot keys it provides in Word, Trados, Wordfast, notpad, webpages, etc. In fact, the hot keys work anywhere you can type text.

Select and hit the hot key. Whenever and where-ever you select some text (Always use CTRL+SHIFT+Right or Left Arrow to select texts. It will be much faster than using the mouse!) and hit the hot key (CTRL+J by default), the text will be replaced by its translation from Google Translate.

Special hot keys for various CAT tools. If you are using TagEditor, Translator’s Workbench, Trados 2009, Wordfast pro and SDLX, Hit CTRL+ALT+J, the current segment will be automatically translated and hit CTRL+ALT+K, the next segment will be automatically translated.

Many Language pairs: Google Translate translates between 52 languages and GT4T supports all languages pairs that GT works with! Check Google Translate website for a complete list of available languages.

GT4T never expires! GT4T is not a freeware, but you can use the trial version as long as you wish. A nag screen will appear occasionally after you use it 500 times but you don’t have to pay – if you don’t mind being nagged:)

Google Dictionary & Plain Text Pasting: Select a word anywhere and press down CTRL+SHIFT+D to check the word in Google multilingual dictionary instantly. Press CTRL+SHIFT+V to paste text without format information (font, size, color, etc). These functions are free: you will never get nag screens when using them.

GT4T is available in two versions: Word Edition and Professional Edition. Word Edition is an word add-on that works within Microsoft Word and Professional Edition Works in all applications. The two versions can coexist on one computer. If you buy the license for the pro edition, the Word edition will also be licensed.

Hot keys Summary:

Support: You are always welcome to contact me about anything. You can use the Contact me page to send me an email. I use cell phone pushmail technology so I usually can receive your mail instantly and reply to it very quickly (Except sleeping time of course!).

Now consider you are writing a book with Microsoft Word and you want page numbers to start actually from the 3rd page, i.e. the first two pages should not be numbered and the actual “page 1″ starts from the 3rd page.

You can do that following these steps:

1. Move your cursor to the place where you want to insert page numbers at the header or footer.
2. Press Ctrl+F9 to insert a Field, a

{}

sign will appear. Notice all the following {} cannot be typed. You should always insert them by pressing Ctrl+F9 or clicking Add a Field in the menu.
3. Create a nesting field like this

{if {page} < 3 "" {page}-2}

4. Select the whole field and press Shift+F9 to enjoy the results.

{if {page} < 3 "" {page}-2}

This means that if the page number is smaller than 3 (that is 1 and 2), page numbers will not show, otherwise page number will show {page}-2 (3 shows as page 1).

Paraphrase it in English, it will be “if the page number is smaller than 3, output nothing(“”), otherwise output a number that is page number minus 2.

To summarize the If field:

 { IF Expression1 Operator Expression2 TrueText FalseText }

IMPORTANT!
There should always be a SPACE between “{page}”, “<”, “3”. It should be “if {page} < 3” not “if {page}<3”. And there should be NO SPACE at “{page}-2”. It took quite some time to figure this out. This is because Expression1 Operator Expression2 is considered as three elements not one and SPACE is used to separate different elements.

To do this, you need to edit the header.php of the English version under the /en/ folder and add the following code before the tag:

<!--set permanent cookie -->
<?php 
setcookie("lang", "en", time()+94608000, "/", ".dallascao.com");
?>

This code writes a variable “lang” on your computer and assigns a value “en”. 94608000 is the expiration time (3 years). “/” and “.dallascao.com” means it works from the root directory of dallascao.com and its subdomains. Inserting this code into header.php means that when you visit any page of the English version, your visit will be remembered.

Likewise, you need to insert the following code into the header.php of the Chinese version.

<!--set permanent cookie -->
<?php 
setcookie("lang", "cn", time()+94608000, "/", ".dallascao.com");
?>

It means when you visit the Chinese version, the variable “lang” will be assigned the value of “cn”.

At last, Create an index.php at the root containing the following code.

<?php $lang=$_COOKIE["lang"];
switch ($lang) {
 
case 'cn':
header('Location:  http://dallascao.com/cn');
break;
 
case 'en':
header('Location:  http://dallascao.com/en');
break;
#Get the default language of the browser if no cookies are found.
default:
	$lang = getDefaultLanguage(); 
	switch ($lang) { 
       case 'zh-cn' : 
               header('Location:  http://dallascao.com/cn'); 
               break; 
       default: 
	          header('Location: http://dallascao.com/en'); 
              break; 
		} 
break;
}
?>
 
 
<?php
 
 
 
#########################################################
# Copyright ? 2008 Darrin Yeager                        #
# http://www.dyeager.org/                               #
# Licensed under BSD license.                           #
#   http://www.dyeager.org/downloads/license-bsd.php    #
#########################################################

function getDefaultLanguage() {
   if (isset($_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE"]))
      return parseDefaultLanguage($_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE"]);
   else
      return parseDefaultLanguage(NULL);
   }
 
function parseDefaultLanguage($http_accept, $deflang = "en") {
   if(isset($http_accept) && strlen($http_accept) > 1)  {
      # Split possible languages into array
      $x = explode(",",$http_accept);
      foreach ($x as $val) {
         #check for q-value and create associative array. No q-value means 1 by rule
         if(preg_match("/(.*);q=([0-1]{0,1}\.\d{0,4})/i",$val,$matches))
            $lang[$matches[1]] = (float)$matches[2];
         else
            $lang[$val] = 1.0;
      }
 
      #return default language (highest q-value)
      $qval = 0.0;
      foreach ($lang as $key => $value) {
         if ($value > $qval) {
            $qval = (float)$value;
            $deflang = $key;
         }
      }
   }
   return strtolower($deflang);
}
 
 
?>