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Why does Chrome incorrectly determine page is in a different language and offer to translate?

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Please post a URL of a page that shows the problem.

DrDick 2010-03-18 18:44:20

It's an internal application.

Sam 2010-03-18 19:07:36

Answer 2

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I am also getting this problem. Have you sorted yours out?

Rod 2010-03-31 06:54:07

nope, not yet. :(

Sam 2010-03-31 10:52:30

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Chromium thinks this page in Filipino: http://www.reyalvarado.com/portfolio/cuba/ Notes: There is pretty much no text on the page except for the owner's name and the menu items. Menu items are dynamically replaced with images by FLIR.

The HTML declares the page as US English:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr" lang="en-US">

James Revillini 2010-05-08 21:25:41

Answer 4

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Have the same problem at any page in English.

2010-06-24 10:06:06

Answer 5

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use the following.

<meta name="google" value="notranslate">

if that doesn't work, you can always place a bunch of text (your "About" page for instance) in a hidden div. might help with SEO as well.

Emile 2010-06-28 08:04:43

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Without knowing what the text was, perhaps the ngram detection is being tricked by the content of your page.

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/08/all-our-n-gram-are-belong-to-you.html

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/N-gram

NinjaCat 2010-07-23 19:31:06

But the question is, how can I debug it or get more info for Chrome to figure out exactly why it made the choice it did?

Sam 2010-07-24 04:04:11

Without seeing the text, I cannot say for sure. Some things to try: - If you copy the text and paste it into translate.google.com, and set it to "Detect Language", does it tell you that it's English or not? - If it says it's Danish or whatever, then I would start removing sentences until you find the troublemaker.

NinjaCat 2010-07-24 06:54:17

Hi Sam -That's in effect what I am suggesting. There's no way to ask it why it made the decision. There's some sentence or wording in your text that is tricking it (after all machine translation is not nearly perfect).In order to debug this thing I would take out sentence by sentence until it recognizes the correct language.

NinjaCat 2010-07-25 08:31:59

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