I can't address your question about why the default is Spanish- >English, but have a suggestion that might help. Update your bookmark to Google translate by adding "langpair=auto|en" to the URL, like this: -> http://translate.google.com/translate_t?langpair=auto|en This will make the defaults for both website and text translation Default->English. You can set the "langpair" field to any combination of language codes too. I use Translate for translating Japanese to English, and have a bookmark buttons on my Firefox bookmark bar for quick, convenient JA->EN translation.
Z. On Aug 29, 11:41 pm, Behrang Dadsetan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > tohttp://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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
