Yandex incorrect translation

[ankit-m]

I have a 75% Chinese to English setting. Ideally, it shouldn't translate English to English. But as per the settings and the algorithm, it selects some words and translates. This should map the words to themselves. But words are translated wrongly by Yandex.

Role-playing is converted to role-out, were is converted to the. The error is with Yandex.

On the other hand Google Translate does not suffer from this error.

Off the top of my head, I think we need language detection for a page.

[ceilican]

Interesting.

Originally (a few years ago), MTW had a "detect language" option for the source language. This option would rely on Google Translate's auto-detect language feature. But somehow it wasn't working properly. That is why I disabled the feature. But maybe things are better now. Or maybe we could implement our own language detection somehow. If you have any ideas about that, please let me know.

[ankit-m]

To detect language, a fast and simple way could be to look at the Unicode encoding of the letters and find their script/language from it.

One problem with detect language is that a page may contain many languages. To find source language would be tough in this case.

We can still use Google API, but besides being a paid service, it will add a lot of overhead time.