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Context menu translation languages to expand in future? #1064

Open DavidGreen63 opened 3 months ago

DavidGreen63 commented 3 months ago

What happened?

I noticed that there was a context menu option for translation, and I thought this was a great idea. Screenshot 2024-08-30 132150 … at least until I discovered that the source language was not supported. I am hoping that there will be plans to expand the scope of the languages that are available. In the screen-shot above, I was trying to get Japanese translated into English, but it was not on the list, nor could it be added (yet?).

I did notice that the language list appears to be limited to languages that use an extended Latin alphabet, so I am wondering if this is a limitation preventing the use of pictographic and non-Latin script characters.

Reproducible?

Version

1.0.0-a.32 (64-bit)

Severity impact

Low

What platform are you seeing the problem on?

Windows

Relevant log output

No response

Anthonyy232 commented 2 months ago

Japanese doesn't seem to be supported by Firefox translate, which is kind of weird considering how popular the language is (especially in the West nowadays). They also don't support Chinese..

DavidGreen63 commented 2 months ago

Thanks @Anthonyy232 for pointing that out. I didn't even realise that the translate function was part of Firefox. I thought it was a plug-in/extension function. I looked at https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/features/translate/ which suggests that "And more languages are in development!", so maybe that will change when Firefox closes.

Interestingly, I am currently using Floorp, another Firefox fork, by the Japanese company Ablaze, and it has not added Japanese, so I guess it is Google Translate that will maintain its rule for the time being.

Ablaze recommended https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/traduzir-paginas-web/

Anthonyy232 commented 2 months ago

Yes, it would be great if it was natively supported, especially since Firefox doesn't seem to be making any grounds on that front. For now -- TPW it is

DavidGreen63 commented 2 months ago

I liked how the tiny Google Translate icon hovers near any selected text. It is a very handy implementation.