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Claudio González
Claudio González
Legend
June 2, 2014
Question

Cannot translate from French to English because it is in English?

  • June 2, 2014
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When I ask this message from the obvious French of the text to English:

I receive this message:

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    Claudio González
    Claudio GonzálezAuthor
    Legend
    June 2, 2014

    This is the way I tried to compose the above message in IE/Win (and I unintentionally left out the "to be translated"):

    When I ask this message to be translated from the obvious French of the text to English:

    I recive this message:

    Correctly formatted in FF/Mac.

    Claudio González
    Claudio GonzálezAuthor
    Legend
    June 2, 2014

    Obviously, in this thread I am interested in the trasnslation problem. I have reported the composition problem in a separate thread: Inserting images wrecks my messages

    Jacob Bugge
    Community Expert
    Jacob BuggeCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 2, 2014

    Claudio,

    It may be even worse than you could possibly imagine.

    If the first word in the body appears to be English, you are doomed whichever language the rest is written in.

    If the (first word of the) Header appears to be English (as in the case in question), you are doomed, whatever the body.

    And if the OP has a screen name that appears to be, or start with, an English word, you are doomed, whatever the Header.

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