Dear Google Translate Group members, I use Google translate everytime I need a quick translation from Chinese to English. Mostly I use the textbox to translate some text rather than a whole web page. What I describe here relates to both text translation and web site translation.
When I visit translate.google.com it automatically forwards me to http://translate.google.com/translate_t?hl=en# This could be due to my language preferences set-up in the browser or cookies set-up by iGoogle or other that know I prefer to see english. That's just fine. When I look at the drop-downs just below the textbox and the URL text fields, I see invariably: "Spanish" => "English" Why "Spanish"? I am sure plenty of people would need such translations, but there are plenty more people who would need to translate from other languages. I wonder why you would not use "Detect language" >> "English"? Is the Auto-detect not clever enough to figure out when the translation source is spanish? I am sure it is a difficult process and more an art than a science, but I love it so much when Google gets the right defaults for me, I wish it could do so on this one too :) An alternative would be for google to use one of its dozens of cookies to track what language I tend to translate from. Would that not be a better solution than forcing me to switch away from Spanish every single time I use the translate tool? Many thanks! Behrang Dadsetan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Translate" 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?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
