I'm going to try the html tag enclosing route today and see where that goes as I think it should be simpler and more flexible than your escaping suggestion. However, I would like to hear more about your suggestion if you could post here or e-mail me.
In the generated primary language, I plan to enclose bits that aren't to be translated in a span tag with a specific class. For example, the phrase: The refinery at Marseille will be running 10% west Texas sour crude for the month of August. Translates into French as: La raffinerie de Marseille se déroulera de 10% brut West Texas aigre pour le mois d'août. So putting in my span tag... The refinery at Marseille will be running 10% <span class="notranslate">west Texas sour</span> crude for the month of August. Translates as: La raffinerie de Marseille se déroulera de 10% <span class="notranslate"> ouest Texas sour </ span> brut pour le mois d'août. And the notranslate section can easily be put back to the original and the span tag stripped out, to give: La raffinerie de Marseille se déroulera de 10% west Texas sour brut pour le mois d'août. Note however that the inclusion of the span tag affects the translation and the final result puts the word 'brut' in a different (and I think wrong) place to the sentence without tags. I understand this is a known problem with Google translate, that is hopefully being worked on with some urgency. Another problem with the translation, as you also have noted, is the propensity of the translator to put in spaces where they should not be. It also replaces the specific html code with a space which means that if you intend multiple spaces using several together, they get translated to multiple spaces which then render in the browser as a single space. This should be simple enough to fix at the Google level. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google AJAX APIs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-AJAX-Search-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
