Translation inccorectly changes when changing from lower case to upercase the first character of a sentense

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=== What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Translate "How are you doing?" in french
2. You get a wrong french translation: "comment fais-tu?"
3. Translate "how are you doing?" in french
4. You get a correct translation ""comment vas-tu?"

Done using google translate (with the API or directly)

=== What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Current Google Tranlsate API March 3, 2009

=== Please provide any additional information below.

In fact, this happens with a lot of simple sentences (try "This cat is
nice" vs "this cat is nice") and seems to be the case in spanish too
(with "How are you doing?")! 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Frisch.C@gmail.com on 4 Mar 2009 at 8:46

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Yes i had the same issue with spanish. I'm using firefox 3.1, on windows vista. 
I
entered the following phrases
1. "tiene un amor platónico en colombia" --> google translation: Platonic love 
is a
talent
2. "Tiene un amor platónico en colombia" --> "It has a platonic love in india"
3. "Tiene un amor platónico en Colombia" --> "It has a platonic love in 
Colombia"

Original comment by jannink....@gmail.com on 15 Mar 2009 at 6:31

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I am getting same issue with Hindi and spanish ... (Tested on Mar 18 2009).

English -> Hindi
Input  : "Cricket is bat and ball game" 
Output :->"क्रिकेट बल्ले और गेंद के 
खेल है"

Input  : "cricket is bat and ball game"
Output : "क्रिकेट के बल्ले और गेंद 
के खेल है"

English :-> Spanish
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Input  "Cricket is bat and ball game"
output : "Cricket es bate y juego de pelota"

Input  :"cricket is bat and ball game" 
output : "Se bate de cricket y juego de pelota"

Original comment by ronghes...@gmail.com on 18 Mar 2009 at 7:02

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this happens with single words, too, which is ridiculous. Upper-case words often
don't get translated at all, where lower-case words translate just fine. Also it
seems it depends on the result language. Using German as result language often 
yields
this problem while other languages don't. Examples:
Reloj (Spanish to German) yields "Clock", which is the English translation, 
should be
"Uhr", reloj works fine.
Scale (English to German) yields "Scale", "scale" works fine

Original comment by jannikov...@gmail.com on 25 Nov 2009 at 9:09

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2011 and always the same bug for very basic input:
EN->FR
 How are you? is wrong, how are you? is correct

Any news/correction ?

Original comment by fvisti...@gmail.com on 9 Mar 2011 at 12:04