I forgot to push changes, and it's been a while. I'm pretty sure this is game fixes.

speech/clipboard_translator.sh

@@ -7,23 +7,30 @@
 # set -Eeuo pipefail # https://vaneyckt.io/posts/safer_bash_scripts_with_set_euxo_pipefail/#:~:text=set%20%2Du,is%20often%20highly%20desirable%20behavior.
 shopt -s expand_aliases
 
-# Debug logging
-#DEBUG_LOG="${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-$HOME/.cache}/audiogame-manager/translator-debug.log"
-#exec 2>>"$DEBUG_LOG"
-#echo "=== Translator started at $(date) ===" >&2
-#echo "Args: $@" >&2
-#set -x
-
 if [[ $# -ne 2 ]]; then
     echo "Usage: $0 \"application name\" \"file name\"."
     exit 1
 fi
 
+scriptDir="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
+pythonScript="${scriptDir}/translate_clipboard.py"
+if [[ -z "${AGM_TRANSLATOR_FORCE_SHELL:-}" ]] && command -v python3 &> /dev/null && [[ -f "$pythonScript" ]]; then
+    exec python3 "$pythonScript" "$@"
+fi
+
+is_app_running() {
+    local appPattern="$1"
+    local selfPid="$$"
+
+    pgrep -af -u "$USER" "$appPattern" \
+        | awk -v selfPid="$selfPid" '$1 != selfPid && $0 !~ /clipboard_translator.sh/ { found=1 } END { exit !found }'
+}
+
 # Wait for the application to start
-while ! pgrep -f -u "$USER" "$1" &> /dev/null ; do
+while ! is_app_running "$1"; do
     sleep 0.05
 done
-    
+
 fileName="${2,,}"
 fileName="${fileName//[[:space:]]/-}.sqlite"
 translationFile="${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-$HOME/.cache}/audiogame-manager/${fileName}"
@@ -44,26 +51,8 @@ CREATE INDEX translations_text_idx ON translations (text);
 EOF
 fi
 
-# Define a function to safely query the database
-query_database() {
-    local dbFile="$1"
-    local sqlQuery="$2"
-    sqlite3 -line "$dbFile" "$sqlQuery"
-}
-
-# Define a function to safely insert into the database
-insert_database() {
-    local dbFile="$1"
-    local text="$2"
-    local translation="$3"
-    
-    # Use sqlite3 .import feature which is more robust for special characters
-    echo "$text|$translation" | sqlite3 -separator "|" "$dbFile" ".import /dev/stdin temp_import"
-    sqlite3 "$dbFile" "INSERT OR IGNORE INTO translations SELECT * FROM temp_import; DROP TABLE IF EXISTS temp_import;"
-}
-
 # Read so long as the application is running
-while pgrep -f -u "$USER" "$1" &> /dev/null ; do
+while is_app_running "$1"; do
     sleep 0.05
     text="$(xclip -d "${DISPLAY:-:0}" -selection clipboard -o 2> /dev/null)"
     if [[ -f ~/.agmsilent ]]; then
@@ -80,46 +69,50 @@ while pgrep -f -u "$USER" "$1" &> /dev/null ; do
 
     # https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_equivalence#Combining_and_precomposed_characters
     # https://www.effectiveperlprogramming.com/2011/09/normalize-your-perl-source/
-    alias nfc="perl -MUnicode::Normalize -CS -ne 'print NFC(\$_)'" # composed characters
+    nfc() {
+        perl -MUnicode::Normalize -CS -ne 'print NFC($_)'
+    }
 
     # Normalize different unicode space characters to the same space
     # https://stackoverflow.com/a/43640405
-    alias normalizeSpaces="perl -CSDA -plE 's/[^\\S\\t]/ /g'"
-    alias normalizeUnicode="normalizeSpaces | nfc"
+    normalize_spaces() {
+        perl -CSDA -plE 's/[^\S\t]/ /g'
+    }
+    # Remove zero-width spaces (U+200B) that some games insert between characters
+    strip_zwsp() {
+        perl -CSDA -plE 's/\x{200B}//g'
+    }
+    normalize_unicode() {
+        strip_zwsp | normalize_spaces | nfc
+    }
 
     # Normalize text
-    normalizedText="$(echo "$text" | normalizeUnicode)"
-    
+    normalizedText="$(echo "$text" | normalize_unicode)"
+
     # Create a temporary database for import
     sqlite3 "$translationFile" "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS temp_import(text TEXT, translation TEXT);"
-    
+
     # Check if we already have a translation
     translated=$(sqlite3 "$translationFile" "SELECT translation FROM translations WHERE text = '$normalizedText' LIMIT 1;" 2>/dev/null)
-    echo "DEBUG: Database lookup result: '$translated'" >&2
 
     if [[ -z "$translated" ]]; then
-        echo "DEBUG: No cached translation, calling trans command" >&2
         # Get translation from the trans utility
-        translated="$(trans -no-autocorrect -no-warn -brief "$normalizedText" | head -1 | sed 's/\s*$//' | normalizeUnicode)"
-        echo "DEBUG: trans returned: '$translated'" >&2
+        translated="$(trans -no-autocorrect -no-warn -brief "$normalizedText" | head -1 | sed 's/\s*$//' | normalize_unicode)"
 
         if [[ -n "$translated" ]]; then
             # Insert using echo piping to avoid escaping issues
             echo "$normalizedText|$translated" | sqlite3 -separator "|" "$translationFile" ".import /dev/stdin temp_import"
             sqlite3 "$translationFile" "INSERT OR IGNORE INTO translations SELECT * FROM temp_import; DELETE FROM temp_import;"
-            echo "DEBUG: Saved to database" >&2
         fi
     fi
 
     # If we got a translation, speak it
     if [[ -n "$translated" ]]; then
-        echo "DEBUG: Speaking translation: '$translated'" >&2
         spd-say -- "$translated"
     else
-        echo "DEBUG: No translation available, speaking original: '$text'" >&2
-        spd-say -- "$text"
+        spd-say -- "$normalizedText"
     fi
-    
+
     # Clear clipboard
     echo "" | xclip -d "${DISPLAY:-:0}" -selection clipboard 2> /dev/null
 done