Apostrophes are printed as special caracters (FR)

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48/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
backend, cli

Research direction

Start by reproducing the output through translate-cli and the Translator Python API using the examples in the issue, then trace where the MyMemory response becomes the returned translation. Done means apostrophes are displayed as apostrophes rather than the HTML entity ' in both entry points, with a regression test if the existing test structure supports it.

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Description

Hello :)

First of all what a great module really !!! The default translator is awesome for basic usage (so is mine)
I just had one small disappointment about the apostrophes printed as special caracters when trying to translate in french

(gl) guillaume@A320MA:~$ translate-cli -t fr "That's his fault not mine"

Translation: C'est sa faute pas la mienne
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Translated by: MyMemory

I thought this could have something to do with the terminal's encoding so I tried in pure python3/utf-8 and got the same result

>>> translator= Translator(to_lang="fr")
>>> translation = translator.translate("That's cool isn't it ?")
>>> print(translation)
C'est cool non ?

It's very surprising to me since even mandarin seems to print properly

I was using translate, version 3.5.0 on Ubuntu x86 LTS20 with python 3.7.1 (anaconda)

For now I can use a small hotfix (a simple ".replace("'","'") should do) but maybe it could be fixed idk ? :)

Thanks again for the good work however 👍

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