Translating selected text unreliable on subsequent translations
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There is a small mistake in translator popup when you select another target language. It shows that new selected language in the drop down list and the browser language beneath.
Finnish is selected, translation to German is correct. Just looks funny : )
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I'm unable to reproduce that issue here. Tried translating English to Finnish (as in your example), and the correct language was shown:
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@bariton What is your Vivaldi version?
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@Pesala Version is 5.1.2567.39 (Stable channel) (64-Bit).
My description is not good enough.
When changing the language, it works. But when translating a word again, you get the "language mix".
So the problem shows on subsequent translations only. -
@bariton said in Translator popup small mistake:
My description is not good enough.
Please see How to Report a Bug or reply to your previous report (if you made one) with an updated description.
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@bariton I can confirm.
- Having German als preferred language in browser UI
- Select word shows
- context menu "Ausgewählten Text übersetzen"
- Translation popup shows English as source and Deutsch as destination and text is correctly translated
- Now switch destination to Finnisch
- text gest translate to correct Finnisch language
- Select an other word on same webpage
- context menu "Ausgewählten Text übersetzen"
- Destination language dropdown is selected Finnisch but shown in Deutsch
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@doctorg I just tested it a bit further, and the UI language seems irrelevant. The relevant part is using the context menu "Translate selection" command instead of the Translate Button. The latter works correctly with subsequent translations, whereas the context menu command shows the bug.
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Bug report sent, VB-86790.
Used the doctor's advice list, thanks : ) -
When translating a selection and choosing a language manually it works well at first. But when translating a selection (on the same page) a second time, it remembers the language selected but is not actually translating:
Choosing a different language for a moment and back will activate it again:
This continues to happen every time after that.
I'm using the English language version of Vivaldi on a Dutch version of Windows 10, which may or may not be relevant.
Vivaldi 5.2.2623.39 (Stable channel) (64-bit)
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FYI, this issue persists in:
Vivaldi 5.2.2623.41 (Stable channel) (64-bit) Revision 30e6417c5626b4d153569eed731749c3d624a1df OS Windows 10 Version 21H2 (Build 19044.1645) JavaScript V8 10.0.139.17 User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/100.0.4896.147 Safari/537.36
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@Surreal Which URL is this?
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@DoctorG Url doesn't really matter, i've confirmed it on this page translating my own post. But it was an article on theatlantic.com
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@Surreal Works for me with UI lang German from Automatic → Nederlandse on Vivaldi 5.2.2623.41 on a German Win 11.
/edit: I set Vivaldi now to Nederlandse UI, used context menu "Textselectie vertalen" in forum and i got a nederlandse text in translation popup.
Same if set Vivaldi to US-English UI, and restarted, selected text, context menu "Textselectie vertalen", select Nederlandse from dropdown and i get correct translation. -
Vivaldi is set to English-US here because 'translated' interface elements look a little silly to me most of the time.
Anyway, did you realize that selecting/activating Dutch manually always works fine here too. The issue is when translating another selection on the same page. Then it remembers that i want Dutch, rather than the default English-US that i always get on fresh pages - but doesn't actually work (as shown above). Selecting another language, then Dutch again will reactivate it.
Also, there doesn't appear to be a default translation preference in the settings or is there? I would have to set Vivaldi to Dutch for that. While i do have the default site language set with Dutch at first preference.
It may seem like an odd case. But actually most people in my surrounding prefer to use software in their original English language.
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@Surreal said in Translation remembers language but not translating.:
Vivaldi is set to English-US here because 'translated' interface elements look a little silly to me most of the time.
I set it to English (UK) to have a normal date format, but yeah, I also find computer programs weird when they talk to me in anything than English.
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Same here what the op states.
German windows, german vivaldi UI.
Described here, filed as VB-86790 -
@bariton VB-86790 "Translator popup drop down and target language not in sync after changing target language and translating again"
Was confirmed in February 2022. -
@bariton Thanks for hint, the bug was confirmed months ago.
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