Thank you Zabeus This is exactly what I needed to know. It frustrates me no end that it defaults to Spanish->English.
Saying that, I'm going to have to have one set up for Ja->En and one for En->Ja. Couldn't google add a "swap" button so you can them translate in reverse? Also, it's in our google account what our interface language selection is, so it would be reasonable (and very easy) to default to this and the language of the location you are in (again, easy!), with the swap button there. So, if I was in France and went to google translate it would default to English -> French (Swap?) Does anyone else this this would be useful? Andrew On Sep 4, 7:56 pm, Zabeus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
