That is correct. If I choose Arabic to English and type in English in the Arabic box, it remains English.
In Russian and Chinese, when I hit the space, nothing happens, but when I hit return, I get 'Did you mean' xxx (xxx being the Russian or Chinese word I was trying to type using English) and Translate generally gets it right, but with Arabic I get nothing, just the English letters. If I type Arabic using the Google Arabic on-screen keyboard, then Translate works as well as computer translation ever works. The problem is trying to use transliteration. And if I try google.com/transliterate, I just get -------clip------ We're sorry... ... but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now. See Google Help for more information. ------------clip---- -- 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.
