The recent updates to google translate seem to have fixed this bug. The automatic translation based on settings saved to cookies isn't causing any problems on my example page linked above anymore.
Thanks guys! Greg On Jul 27, 4:58 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 abugwhile 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 abugcaused by the cookies that the translation > > > script sets. When I go to a french page and allow it to translate into > > > english it sets acookie. Thecookiecauses 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 > > >cookieset 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 acookiefor > > > afrikaans causing all of my pages to automatically translate to > > > afrikaans until I clear thecookie. > > > The google translation javascript doesn't seem to be respecting the > > > 'pageLayout' variable properly and/or isn't using thecookieproperly? > > > > I have made a couple demo pages that demonstrate > > > thebug:http://thegoog.net/things/translate/enafbug/english.html > > > > There are instructions on the page on how to replicate thebug. 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.
