translation into more than one language: Have just stumbled onto a surpirsing glitch using the Google Translate Page tab in Seamonkey 2.0 brpowser on the following page:
http://www.arlindo-correia.com/CATHERINE_millet.html The page is in Portuguese, and first I translated it to English, which is the default target language set in my browser. The translation was quite shakey, and I often had to use the hover function to check and correct it. It then occurred to me to try translating the original to French, to see whether that would result in a more reliable translation. I was concerned though, about the fact that I had no opportunity to change the target language when calling up the translate page function, only afterward, when the English translation was already displayed. The hover function was reassuring, in that it continued to display the original Portuguese text. However, I soon came across a word that did not occur in the Portuguese, and did not seem correct in the French "felt". The appearance of this word suggests that although Google Translate showed the original Portuguese in the however bubble, it had actually translated its previous English translation into French, NOT the original. On Jul 27, 1:58 pm, Josh (Google Employee) wrote: > We're on this. > > Fix is coming. > > Josh > > On Jul 27, 6:28 am, Jaypee wrote: > > > 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.
