From 44e6f99e623d041387be2fb2649fc9a708c712bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Patrick Connolly <patrick.c.connolly@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2018 17:30:01 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Added fix for Google Translate bug.

---
 gateway/gateway.go | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gateway/gateway.go b/gateway/gateway.go
index 20e2a3ac..5dd735fa 100644
--- a/gateway/gateway.go
+++ b/gateway/gateway.go
@@ -300,6 +300,10 @@ func (gw *Gateway) handleMessage(msg config.Message, dest *bridge.Bridge) []*BrM
 			text := msg.Text
 			var results [][]string
 
+			// colons: add temp token
+			// This is an ugly hack to work around what seems to be a bug in the Google Translate API.
+			// See: https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge/pull/512#issuecomment-428910199
+			text = regexp.MustCompile(`(:)([ $])`).ReplaceAllString(text, "<span translate='no'>ː$2</span>")
 
 			// @usernames
 			results = regexp.MustCompile(`(@[a-zA-Z0-9-]+)`).FindAllStringSubmatch(text, -1)
@@ -339,6 +343,10 @@ func (gw *Gateway) handleMessage(msg config.Message, dest *bridge.Bridge) []*BrM
 				}
 
 				text = strip.StripTags(text)
+
+				// colons: revert temp token
+				// See: previous comment on colons
+				text = regexp.MustCompile(`(ː)([ $])`).ReplaceAllString(text, ":$2")
 				text = html.UnescapeString(text)
 
 				msg.Text = text + attribution