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Translations in PowerRename #37672

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Description of the new feature / enhancement

PowerRename is great for cleaning up file names, but sometimes there are a lot of non-English characters or words in them. Some have characters or words from other languages that are not my local language. I currently have to copy and paste them to translate.google.com to convert them to my local language. It would be great if PowerRename could do this step automatically if a user enables it.

Scenario when this would be used?

I clean up filenames from VR180 videos that I download from YouTube, but a lot of titles are in other languages. This is mainly because the VR community is much larger outside North America. It would be nice if PowerRename had an option to connect with a translation service like Google and automatically convert them to English or the local language of the user's choice. The user should be able to have it auto-detect the source language and set the target language. This may depend on the translation service though.

It may require the user to sign up with a service if free ones are not available.

Supporting information

The ResxManager extension in Visual Studio has an option like this for translating .resx files so there must be API's out there that can be used. I'm not sure if this extension can be looked at as a source of information on how to implement the functionality.

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