My website has lots of abbreviations, including two-letter state/ province abbreviations. I just went through my HTML code and did a grep search for anything in all caps and wrapped it with <span class="notranslate"> </span> tags. I also did the same with other stuff I didn't want translated, like dates. (I use the international format, 2099-12-31, and don't want it converted to 31/12/99 or 12/31/2099 or whatever.) Another fun one is telephone numbers with alpha mnemonics. For example, until I wrapped "notranslate" around it, the phone number 123-123-BILL came out in French as 123-123-Projet de Loi. (A more appropriate translation in context would've been "facturer," but that's another kettle of fish.)
What I'd really like to see is some kind of "hinting" protocol, so that, for example, the original English could show ME for Maine, but other languages (especially languages in other character sets) could see the translation of "Maine," instead of either the literal "ME" or the translation of the word "me." My thought was something like <span class="notranslate" alt="Maine">ME</span> On Nov 9, 6:39 am, Pom wrote: > Hi, > We're planning on using the in-page Google translation facility for > our new website. However, being a local government website, we have > many acronyms which we don't want translating. For example, one of our > team names is called FISH, which stand for Families Information > Service Hub, If the page is translated to French, this team is > translated to 'poisson', which doesn't make sense. > I was hoping it would recognise acronym and abbreviation tags in the > code and just not translate those words, but it doesn't do this. Any > ideas? > Much appreciated! -- 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.
