#3069 - Google Translate issues

By Adam Edington
Added 5th Feb 2017, 10:05 PM
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Identifier	#3069
Issue type	Trivial issue (does not break functionality)
Title	Google Translate issues
Status	Closed (no changes needed)
Handling member	Chris Graham
Addon	core
Description	I have decided having this feature is probably more useful than not, given we don't know where our website traffic might be originating from. However, where it appears by default in v10 is a little awkward, especially when the actual translate feature appears right above it. I would suggest a side block, but I realise some sites may not be using panels. Would be nice to find a better place for it, I would say the footer given the login and mobile options are down there. One peculiarty I noticed is that when the site is translated, two inbox icons appear. It also breaks the text sizer layout in the footer. I noticed that language strings such as the "Email address" placeholder in the newsletter block do not get translated, but this may be normal.
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By Guest posted 5th Feb 2017, 10:05 PM

By Guest posted 5th Feb 2017, 10:06 PM

I don't think this is a Composr feature. Are you just using the browser's inbuilt translation feature?

By Guest posted 5th Feb 2017, 10:11 PM

Hmm, I read a tutorial the other day and I'm pretty sure I enabled something. If you look at the image, there is a drop down menu with all the languages in it. I haven't added that by hand. When you select one then the bit above appears.

By Guest posted 5th Feb 2017, 10:15 PM

That's pure Google translate. Google provide a script to embed into a page that then modifies it. Some browsers integrate that.

By Guest posted 5th Feb 2017, 10:17 PM

Okay, I did read a tutorial but you're right. It's not a Composr feature, but the option was mentioned in the tutorial as being a different way to approach it. Just looked at HTML_HEAD.tpl and there is some Google Translate code there I must have added. My bad, but any idea why it's showing two inboxes for any language other than English?

By Guest posted 5th Feb 2017, 10:20 PM

Google will be making some assumptions, very likely they're not even maintaining their code as they have a tendency to drop stuff as Googlers lose interest. Especially now that Google Chrome has a native translate built-in not using that, they've probably just decided that's the future.

By Guest posted 5th Feb 2017, 10:22 PM

Yeah that's why I wanted to add it, some browsers don't and I think it's a simple and effective way to at least let anyone in the world read your content. Just can't understand why I'm getting two inbox icons. The footer layout is cos of the languages taking up more space then English, and I assume the placeholder text isn't translatable by default, but the inbox thing is kinda strange. Nothing else gets duplicated.

By Guest posted 5th Feb 2017, 10:24 PM

Well it seems to be working well enough, and there's a decent range of languages. Even Welsh :)

By Guest posted 5th Feb 2017, 11:37 PM

No problem if you haven't got time to consider this, but upon closer inspection the first inbox icon has the original english text when hovered and the second inbox icon when hovered has the translated text. So although they are duplicated, they are different.

By Guest posted 6th Feb 2017, 7:18 AM

You really would need to file a bug report with Google somehow.

By Guest posted 6th Feb 2017, 10:01 PM

Okay, I thought that somehow the first instance might be hardcoded somehow. Using the Bing translator in the footer now instead, no issues with that.

By Guest posted 7th Feb 2017, 8:42 AM

Cool, thanks for mentioning that - I'll update the tutorial you saw to mention this then.

#3069 - Google Translate issues

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