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Unofficial, FOSS-friendly fork of the original Telegram client for Android
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Language "Translate Entire Chats" setting appears to have no effect #692

Open rulnick opened 10 months ago

rulnick commented 10 months ago

In Telegram-FOSS v9.6.5 (3356) arm64-v8a, enabling

Settings > Language > Show Translate Button

works as expected but

Settings > Language > Translate Entire Chats

does not; specifically, the expected translation bar or button never appears at the top of foreign language channels. This Premium feature ("Real-time Chat and Channel Translation") works for the same account when Telegram is accessed via web.telegram.org/a, so it appears to me to be specific to Telegram-FOSS. It is consistent and repeatable across multiple non-English channels and after clearing cache, stopping & restarting, rebooting the device, etc.

Is this a known issue? I have found no references under issues or in the usual non-github places (with one possible exception). I would be grateful to know if there is an easy way to (re-)enable whole-chat translation if I have done something unwittingly to render it inoperable. Thank you.

mgw2013 commented 10 months ago

@rulnick Translation is using the Google service which has a limited nb. of characters. Not sure how this works in premium. I would vote for a customizable translation service (DeepL et al)