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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "General" 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-translate-general?hl=en.
