Questions tagged [translation]
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How can I make Google Chrome automatically translate a page?
If I visit a page that isn't in my native language, how can I make Google Chrome translate it automatically for me into my native language?
Do I need to change any settings, if so where can I find ...
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How to revert "Never translate this site" in Chrome?
I visited a foreign website and I accidentally clicked "Never translate this site". I want to revert this back to the default behavior of Chrome always asking me what to do. How do I do that?
Thanks ...
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goldendict XML parse error on Wikipedia and Wiktionary
I get this error on goldendict for English Wikipedia and English Wiktionary:
Query error: XML parse error: unexpected end of file at 1,1
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Switch Calc (or Excel) formulas to English language
I'm not using an American/English version of Calc/Excel so, every time I want to post here (or on other "web-places") or when I want to try formulas posted by others I need to "translate" them somehow ...
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How can I disable the automatic translation of MS web pages?
When visiting MS Knowledge base articles many are automatically translated (into Dutch).
I prefer the original English texts so that I don't have to second guess which Dutch terms the translator (...
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"Click to translate" for .pdf
Is there a way to be able just click a word and get its translation while reading .pdf files?
Google Dictionary is very useful plugin for Chrome but works only for web pages. Does something similar ...
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How does Chrome know what language a page is in?
I just opened a web page in Google Chrome, and it says "This page is in Japanese, would you like to translate it?".
Asking for a translation would presumably send the contents to Google, but how is ...
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Google translate client for OS X [closed]
I'm using Translate Client on Windows.
This tool instantly get translation of selected text in any application by double press Ctrl
What are alternatives for Mac OS X?
Good implementation would be as ...
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Set Chromium to always automatically translate all languages
Is there any way to set Chromium to always automatically translate websites in all languages so I don't have to do "Always translate websites in LANGUAGE" every time I come across a website in a new ...
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How to add online dictionaries like google translate to GoldenDict?
How to add online dictionaries feature (mainly google translator) for GoldenDict
Right now a discussed solution is in html with an iframe. Is there a simple translation script/app that read a sting ...
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How to translate a full excel sheet to another language with the Microsoft Translator
Following the guide at Best Ways to Translate an Excel File - 2021 Update , clicking on the Microsoft Translator ribbon under "Review", I could not find the "insert" button to ...
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How to disable the popup of Google translate in chrome while it still translates
It is very annoying. When browsing a website that I know is not in English and I trust Googles translation the popup some times comes and destroys the layout and it's impossible to work with the ...
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Integrate Google translation services in Outlook and Office 2010
I like the fact that MS Office 2010 and Outlook 2010 have translation options, but what I would prefer is to use Google's translation services which are a lot better than Microsoft Translation. Is ...
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Good translation (manually) software [closed]
I'm looking for a good translation software. i do not mean something that does all the translation automatically for me.
But rather something that aids me in translating large pieces of text, since ...
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Remove XML node in Notepad++
I have a large XML with the structure below. Now, I want to get rid of the <tuv xml:lang="en-GB"><seg>CONTENT</seg></tuv> nodes, so for each unit only the de-DE part stays (<...
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Quickly translate a word from English
I'm always reading English, but I'm a Spanish native speaker (I'm working on my thesis). Sometimes I need to translate a word into Spanish, and what I do now is to open a new tab and go to Google ...
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Change default language in the google chrome translator bar
I am italian, so I have Google Chrome in Italian.
When I browse the web in languages that I don't know, I find very useful the auto-translation bar of google chrome.
The problem is that it ...
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Text editor for translators
I'm trying to translate a book as a hobby project and it's a bit of a pain software-wise. I don't need translation memory, just solid alignment of original and translation and highlighting of ...
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Translating in Google Chrome
Sometimes Google will offer to translate a page for me but it seems random when it offers. Is there a way I can force this feature to happen on any page (where I specify the language).
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Is there a Linux software to spell check .po files?
I am translating some po-files and I would like to run a spell checker over them. I have Ubuntu 10.10 and use gtranslator. As far as I know, gtranslator can't spellcheck the whole file.
I tried ...
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Edit file side by side for translation in notepad++
I have to translate a lot of files in multiple languages. I would like to use notepad++ with "move to the other view" then "Synchronize Vertical Scrolling".
The document is written so that lines are ...
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How to force Chrome to translate [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Set Chromium to always automatically translate all languages
It seems Google Chrome only translates pages when it auto-discovers they are in another language, and they make a ...
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Can I disable chrome's auto translate function for visitors to a given page on my site? [closed]
I know how to disable this feature for pages that I visit, but what I'm looking for is a way to tell other user's Chrome browsers not to offer translation a particular page on my site.
Is there some ...
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How to translate the selected text in Windows using Google translate?
When I select a text in the Android system, it shows an option to translate the selected text using Google translate (my translation pops up).
Now, how to use Google translate service in the same way ...
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Linux: disable man from showing mans in non-English languages
On my Linux there are some outdated translated mans installed. I want to prohibit man utility from showing them.
I want to do this permanently, while saving a current locale.
What environment ...
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Software to rename files with Japanese or Korean character/letter filenames to their Romanized (Roman/Latin letters) equivalents [closed]
Is there a program (for Windows) that will rename files with Japanese or Korean characters/letters in their filenames to their Romanized (Roman/Latin letters) equivalents (preferably Hepburn ...
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How to perform automatic translation browsing on Firefox?
Problem:
I'm searching for a (miraculous) way to perform automatic translation browsing, according to following requirements.
Mandatory requirements:
1. Translate pages automatically after entering ...
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how does one create an XLIFF file
I see lots of info and tutes on how to use some XLIFF translators, and how to create .po files, but how do I create an XLIFF file?
It seems XLIFF editors allow you to open and translate an XLIFF file,...
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Replacing straight quotes with curly quotes as a basic setting in Windows?
I'm doing translation work and I have to use curly quotes because the web developers behind the site I'm working for had some bugs with straight quotes that interfered with their work. Now I could of ...
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Excel Formula to Translate Text into Target Language
I'm looking for a built-in Excel Formula Function to translate text into a target language. I see Google has made a function "GoogleTranslate()" available and was wondering if something equivalent ...
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Google Translate cannot read a .pdf made in LaTeX
I have received a .pdf document from a colleague who uses LaTeX (I use Office products and have no knowledge of LaTeX at all). The document however is written in German, a language I speak, but not ...
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scan A4 doc > pdf > ocr > translate to english?
I've tried using a combination of
my home scanner to create a '300 dpi', 'document', 'pdf' (options on Canon all-in-one)
ZoHoViewer to create either an RTF or TXT file
google docs to translate
I'm ...
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Translation comparison tools for PO format?
I am using POEdit to modify the localization file of some projects.
Unfortunately it seems not able to do comparisons with different versions. Do you now if it does exists a comparison tool for ...
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xterm key translations
The following lines for ~/.Xresources work only partially in xterm:
xterm*VT100.Translations: #override \n\
Shift <Key> BackSpace: string("2") \n\
Alt Shift <Key> ...
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Email client with language translation support for Mac OS X
I'm looking for an OS X desktop email client that helps me translate my Japanese work emails into English. Any suggestions?
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Open Office is not showing in English, even though the English language is selected
I don't understand what happened with this Open Office installation. It's on a college computer (Linux), so I can't do a reinstallation without admin access.
I have English language selected in ...
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Need to automatic "translate page" process or fix it. In google chrome
I am aware that question come up few times, but my problem is more specific.
In my job in necessary to spend 5-6 hours a day to do website search of various company around the globe. I need to ...
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What are "Global Pages" for? (Intel x86 processors)
In Intel Software Developer's Manual (Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual, June 2023 edit version) Volume 3A Section 4.10.2.4, while explaining TLBs, the following is said ...
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How can I filter out sites which had been automatically translated? [closed]
often I stumble upon websites which had been automatically translated by some associated or built-in application and badly so. I assume those websites get my language from the browser identification ...
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How to change default language for different source language in Google Chrome's translate function
By default, Google Chrome's embedded translate function will only default to translate webpages to user's webpage setting. Same for the translate option provided via right click manual
In the ...
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Translating document to multiple languages?
My question is what's the common approach when it comes to having the same document in multiple languages to keep integrity between versions and changes, as well as format.
I have to translate it ...
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using tr from coreutils for windows
I have to transform contents of file from \ to \\ on Windows in script. So I got Coreutils and tried to use tr \ \\ < file_in > file_out on Windows CMD, but \ in file_out remainde \ instead of ...
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Database of system messages translations? [closed]
Often I am trying find about error messages, occurring in Russian version of Windows. They are in Russian and my own translation into English gives not exact spelling, making it impossible to find the ...
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Is there an app that translates audio from one language into another? [closed]
I have a video in French, that I want to translate the audio into English. It doesn't have to be perfect. I already understand what's going on in the video but a simple translation like Google's text ...
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How to merge subtitle and video files onto one DVD
I'm helping out a small educational group here in Denmark with translating English DVD course material into Danish, simply by adding danish subtitles to the movie. However, I'm having a hard time ...
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Extension to translate words in Google Chrome [closed]
How can I translate words in Google Chrome?
Are there any add-ons or extensions for this?
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IM software with real time translation?
Is there an Instant Messaging client which translates messages to and fro as they are typed/received?
So I can configure my language, (eg. English) and my correspondent's language, (eg. Spanish), and ...
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Excluding all domains with a specific beginning from Google search results
I’m using Google to check how a word is used in the websites of a particular language,
but results from machine-translated pages lead to lots of low quality translations,
so I’d really like to exclude ...
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Poedit : error converting the output to UTF-8
I'm trying to load .po files with poedit, but I keep getting the following error:
Error converting the output to UTF-8
I'm running poedit on a ubuntu distribution if that makes any difference.
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Is it possible to translate or convert a VBS script to BAT?
I have a visual basic script I found years ago, I would like to know if it can be entirely or at least roughly translated into batch format. The goal is to convert the script to batch format, so that ...