This is exactly what I'm trying to achieve: to convert Chinese characters to pinying using a spreadsheet function. Any suggestions how this can be done?
On Oct 13, 6:54 am, Xi Cheng (Google employee) wrote: > thanks for your feedback. > you mean the spreadsheet function is giving you pinyin instead of > English text? > > On Oct 10, 10:18 am, radiator wrote: > > > > > > > > > =GoogleTranslate(A129,"zh","en") > > > So yesterday this translated my sheet fine (I have about 100 sentences > > I am converting. > > > Why is it that sometimes the function works, and sometimes it just > > returns the original chinese? > > > Cell A129 这条路常常堵车，因为前后的宽窄不一样。 > > Cell B129 Zhè tiáo lù chángcháng dǔ chē，yīnwèi qiánhòu de kuānzhǎi bù > > yíyàng. > > > Cell C129 is =GoogleTranslate(A129,"zh","en") > > But it returns: Chinese???? it should be converted to English. Also, > > yesterday, it WAS returning English. > > 这条路常常堵车，因为前后的宽窄不一样。 > > > Any insights to why the translation in a Google Spreadsheet is not > > working would be welcome. -- 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.
