translation of URL in text alters URL

The problem occurred with my web-site (http://txlate.com).

Google Language Translate translates the English phrase:

    twitter in Italian at http://twxlate.com

to Italian as:

    Twitter in italiano a http://twxlate.com

which seems correct.

Similarly:

    more information at http://blog.twxlate.com

translates to Italian as:

    maggiori informazioni a http://blog.twxlate.com

which also seems correct.

However, the concatenation of the two phrases:

    twitter in Italian at http://twxlate.com more information
    at http://blog.twxlate.com

translates to Italian as:

    Twitter in italiano a informazioni http://twxlate.com 
    più a http://blog.twxlate.com

which isn't correct.

Introducing punctuation (to try and force a better translation; notice the
space before the semi-colon, so that the semi-colon is not a part of the URL):

    twitter in Italian at http://twxlate.com ; more information
    at http://blog.twxlate.com

which is translated to Italian as:

    Twitter in italiano a http://twxlate.com; ulteriori 
    informazioni a http://blog.twxlate.com

which is different than what is expected but seems to be correct. Except ...

The space between the first URL and the semi-colon has been elided,
corrupting the URL.

This is a serious problem that I think Google needs to fix.

Thank you in advance for your attention to this.

Jim

Original issue reported on code.google.com by james.re...@gmail.com on 14 Sep 2009 at 4:06

Raghuveersingh / google-ajax-apis

translation of URL in text alters URL #314