Issue 167957 in chromium: Google Translate detects Hindi when the language is actually Nepali

[chro...@googlecode.com]

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Labels: Pri-2 Via-Wizard Type-Bug OS-Windows

New issue 167957 by peterfra...@gmail.com: Google Translate detects Hindi
when the language is actually Nepali
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=167957

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.11 (KHTML, like
Gecko) Chrome/23.0.1271.97 Safari/537.11

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Detect the difference between Hindi and Nepali
2. Detect infinitive verb endings ...na: Hindi ...nu: Nepali
3. Detect the use of HUN हुन् or HAI है: in Hindi Vs CHHA छ or HO हो: in
Nepali.

What is the expected behavior?
I would expect Google Translate to detect Nepali or Hindi and not confuse
the two. Currently TRANSLATE always suggests Hindi.

What went wrong?
Detecting Hindi when the text is Nepali. Although they both use the same
script: Devanagri.

Sometimes the words are translated correctly, but this is due to a few
similarities in both languages.

If it can't translate the word, Google returns the transliterated form E.G.
comes out दिनको as 'Dinko'. Correctly transliterated but meaningless unless
you know that 'Dinko' means 'day's'.

Did this work before? No

Chrome version: 23.0.1271.97 Channel: stable
OS Version: 6.1 (Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2)

Hoping you can solve this issue so I can read articles written in Nepali.

I tried #crowdsourcing" answers on Twitter, to no avail. :-(

Best wishes and good luck, it's not an easy problem to solve!

Peter

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #1 on issue 167957 by peterfra...@gmail.com: Google Translate

detects Hindi when the language is actually Nepali
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=167957

Correction: I meant to write... "दिनको comes out as 'Dinko'. Correctly

transliterated but meaningless unless you know that 'Dinko' means 'day's'."

...to which I can add... in Hindi the possessive form is Din-KA ( दिन्क
)and in Nepali Din-KO ( दिन्को )

Hoping this helps.

Peter

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Updates:
Status: ExternalDependency
Labels: -Pri-2 -OS-Windows Pri-3 OS-All

Comment #3 on issue 167957 by toyo...@chromium.org: Google Translate

detects Hindi when the language is actually Nepali
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=167957

Thank you for reporting this.
https://translate.google.com/ is the backend engine for the translation
feature, and now Nepali is not supported by the backend.

http://support.google.com/translate#2534525
You can check the list of supported languages here.

Could you send feedback from http://translate.google.com/ ?
It is the best way to let Google know the importance of your favorite
language.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #5 on issue 167957 by sarojku...@google.com: Google Translate

detects Hindi when the language is actually Nepali
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=167957

Good news is that , Google Chrome Version 33.0.1738.0 canary , now detects
Nepali language sites and allows user to translate it to English .

Attachments:
Nepali Detected.png 268 KB
Nepali Detected_1.png 225 KB
Nepali Detected-3.png 108 KB

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