It seems that the "detect language" feature has a whole lot of trouble when there's two languages on the page. For example, say I want to translate this page:
http://www.ultrahd.name/ into English (it's in Czech, but I didn't know that before). Obviously there's some English there - and with "detect language", it detects English... The thing is, if I set it to translate TO English, obviously I don't care about the English parts there - it would seem that the language selector is giving up way too easily. I did the same thing, copying all the text there to the translate box - with the first two lines in English, it wouldn't select Czech correctly. At the very least, there should be some kind of restriction to keep the "detect language" feature from selecting the "translate to" language without going through the whole (or at least more of) the page/text to see if there is another language there. Better yet, all the languages present in the page/text could be listed, and you could select any one/any combination/all of the languages to translate. I can't say how many times this "feature" of the "detect language" function has caused mild amounts of frustration because it picks up on the small amount of English text on a page... -- 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.
