Have now tried to fix the problem reported below by every means available: 1. select original text - which displays the Portuguese
2. select target language - French 3. select language to translate - Portuguese 4. click on "translate" After all this, when I hover, the snippet of text previously referenced still appears to be a mistranslation of the English: "Felt bizarre" (shown in the hover function as the French translation) not of the original Portuguese displayed: ". Achava meio estranho." On Aug 9, 3:28 pm, otropogo wrote: > 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.
