I've been experiencing this same problem myself while working with the
Google translate widget / snippet. I would appreciate any guidance or
assistance on rectifying this issue.

Regards,
Jaypee

On Jul 23, 3:03 pm, Greg L wrote:
> I have run into a bug while trying to use google translate to have
> automatic translation on one of my sites.
> The site has both pages in english and french, and I have the snippet
> of html/javascript code provided byhttp://translate.google.com/translate_tools
> to provide automatic translation. I am setting the 'pageLayout'
> variable to the proper language for each page  in the code snippet.
> There seems to be a bug caused by the cookies that the translation
> script sets. When I go to a french page and allow it to translate into
> english it sets a cookie. The cookie causes all pages on the domain to
> be translated from french to english, regardless of the 'pageLayout'
> variable. Then when I go to an english page on the site with the
> cookie set it tries to translate from french to english, but I assume
> since english is not an option to translate (since the page language
> is set to english) it seems to default to the first option, which is
> afrikaans. So it treats the page as french and translates it as if it
> were french text into afrikaans. It then proceeds to set a cookie for
> afrikaans causing all of my pages to automatically translate to
> afrikaans until I clear the cookie.
> The google translation javascript doesn't seem to be respecting the
> 'pageLayout' variable properly and/or isn't using the cookie properly?
>
> I have made a couple demo pages that demonstrate the 
> bug:http://thegoog.net/things/translate/enafbug/english.html
>
> There are instructions on the page on how to replicate the bug. Your
> browser language needs to be set to english.

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