There are no hacks needed for Google translate

It's just matter of giving it encoding we want

trans/machine/base.py

@@ -86,9 +86,6 @@ class MachineTranslation(object):
         # Needed for Microsoft
         if text.startswith('\xef\xbb\xbf'):
             text = text.decode('UTF-8-sig')
-        else:
-            # Some services just cut in middle of UTF-8 char...
-            text = text.decode('utf-8', 'ignore')
         # Needed for Google
         while ',,' in text:
             text = text.replace(',,', ',null,')

trans/machine/google.py

@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ class GoogleTranslation(MachineTranslation):
             text=text,
             sl='en',
             tl=language,
+            ie='UTF-8',
+            oe='UTF-8'
         )
 
         return [(response[0][0][0], 100, self.name, text)]