Also known as translation, an act of making content appear in the user's local language.
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Is there a way to tell Google to speak to me in English, instead of German? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to test google.com outside the US?
I live in Switzerland, and Google insists on speaking to me in German instead of English. I don't understand German. It's so ...
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Can I translate Trello into other languages, specifically French?
Is there a way to translate Trello in other languages? I'm looking for French translation in particular.
Or is it possible to do this translation myself?
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How to make Simplified Chinese preferences on Wikipedia stick?
Chinese Wikipedia (维基百科) has the ability to convert its articles from Traditional to Simplified Chinese through a dropdown menu on its top left corner.
This is great because although I can read ...
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How can I disable/reconfigure IMDB's automatic geo-location so it does not default to German?
Since a few months IMDB appears to be "detecting" that I'm coming from a a German IP address and automatically changes the UI to German. More specifically it shows the Germany movie title when it has ...
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Internationalization of a Google Form
I have written a Google Form for my French-language website, with French-written fields.
Problem: All the generic text is still in English, for instance "Required" or "Go back to the form".
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Why does the internet think I'm French?
Whenever I visit a new site, mostly social network or 'shop' sites, the page defaults to the French language, despite my IP being English. This also occurs when I'm on different computers, and when my ...
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How to make Google's interface always be in your chosen language across products - not just search
I would like to reference and revisit the following post - How do you make Google's interface always be in your chosen language? - that has yet to be answered sufficiently.
Unfortunately none of ...
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Internationalization of the GitHub wiki or GitHub Pages?
My project's wiki documentation is on Google Code, but unfortunately on Google Code every new contributor has to be validated by me beforehand, which is a pain. So I am considering switching to the ...
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Google Trends keeps coming up in Chinese
I'm having a problem with Google trends: it keeps coming up in what it looks like Chinese.
I tried to eliminate several potential causes:
Signed out of my Google account -> still in Chinese.
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How do I change the interface language in Google Groups?
Today I logged into Google Groups and, to my horror, that the interface language changed to Hebrew, probably because I'm accessing the site from Israel. (I speak Hebrew, but rather not use it on the ...
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Are there datasets/frameworks available that map countries to neighbouring ones, spoken languages, currencies, notations?
I am using the IP address to detect countries, and browser headers to detect language. But when it comes to having the user override these, it would be good interface design to:
let them select ...
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Netflix — How to Stream in Different Language?
There are lots of DVDs that have foreign language audio on the disc (ie foreign films might have English audio). Is it possible to stream a movie on Instant Play with an alternate language? Or do ...
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How to make all Google products appear in English?
Most of my accounts on various Google products are on English, but some consistently appear on my native tongue, Croatian (for example, Webmaster tools). I don't like this inconsistency, and would ...
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Is there a way to change language in Trello?
Because seriously, looking at updates like "User added Enheter for nytenkning" or something (random typeish to illustrate) looks ridiculously stupid. I tried looking at the options, but there was ...
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Is there a web application for phonetic English word searches?
Is there a web application for doing phonetic English word searches? For example, if I search for words that contain the syllable "feet", I'd want my results to include:
Feet
Feat
Fetal
Defeat
I ...
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Pandora is playing songs in the wrong language
I'm trying to create a new Pandora station with the song "Enrique Iglesias - I Like It" as the seed. The problem is that all the songs that come up are in Spanish, even though the song seed is in ...
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Any way to auto-add “&hl=en” to URLs of Google services?
Google tries to "help" users understand English language content in its various services like Google Groups when the reader is located in presumably non-English speaking territories.
There are a few ...
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Translation Crowdsourcing for JavaScript apps? [closed]
There seem to be a good number of translation web services popping up that allow for crowdsourcing of applications and provide APIs to keep language files (primarily po and yaml) in sync.
For us ...
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Setting Google results to stay in a language, regardless of location
How do I keep the Google search results in English regardless of where I am searching from? Google is a genius at knowing what ads to show me and what particular language to show me the ads.
If I ...
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Is there a way to report the wrong translation of Facebook?
I was browsing Facebook in a language other than English, and I spotted an incorrect translation. My question is, how do I report that the translation is incorrect and send in the corrected version of ...
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How can I make Google do one-shot searches in a specific language only?
When I use Google to search the web, I usually get German results first and English results later when I use search terms that make sense in both languages. Since I am German and live in Germany, this ...
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Google docs document in Hebrew and English?
Is there any way to have Hebrew and English in the same document in Google Docs?
So far, everything I have found about multiple languages seems to assume that you want the user interface (menus, etc) ...
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Testing website content in different countries
We have a website where different versions are served to readers based on the country they are from (using IP geo-location).
Is there a web app that would allow us to test how the website looks like ...
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Bilingual blog: Wordpress, Tumblr, or Blogger?
I'm helping a Korean artist setup an internet blog to showcase her work. Since her goal is to have her blog in both English and Korean, my question is: which of these platforms better supports ...
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Change language on GetSatisfaction?
Is there any way to change the language of page / widget on Get Satisfaction? It's set to English by default, but we'd like to change it to German.
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How to get Google definition search in other languages?
The previous version of Google's definition: search, showed some language options, so I could lookup the definition of a term in other languages. But since they updated it, I can't find those options ...
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YouTube always localizing
Every time I log into YouTube my country is set to India. I have to manually change it to Worldwide (all) for world trending videos.
Can anyone tell me how to change it permanently?
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Google Search—set search language
When I'm searching on Google, I usually use English. But sometimes I need results in a specific language only (Czech).
So I checked it in settings:
But when I want to search, I now have only two ...
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Change the google interface language
I know this will sound as a strange question, but I looked everywhere - and I cannot find the problem.
When I am logged in, for any google service that I use, google thinks my default language is ...
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How to change menu language in Draw.io?
I'm currently in Brazil and using Window 8 in English. But looks like Draw.io decide to use my ip to define the language of menus.
The translation is good but I really prefer in English since all ...
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Default language for Google Maps
When using Google Maps the web often displayed in Vietnamese. (I live in Vietnam.)
I want it default to be English. How can I do that?
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Can I remove the limit of number of languages in Google Search results?
I see I can select only eight languages for Google Search results.
Is it possible to do a search in all languages?
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Translitrerate paragraphs of text
Google Transliterate converts text to local script as I type. However I have bunch of text paragraphs which I want to transliterate in one go.
How can I do that?
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Linking to region-specific Youtube search results
Until recently, I used to be able to use different custom search engines on my browser to get Youtube results specific to a certain region. To search for results adapted for Americans, I used:
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Is there a +lang:en option in google search, like +site:<domain>? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can I have some shortcut for language and area change in Google search?
Is there an option like +lang:en in google search, like +site:? It would restrict results based ...
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How to internationalize a Facebook Page?
I maintain an product's Facebook Page in English, but many of the customers are Japanese, so I would like to provide a Japanese version of the page.
What is the best way to do so?
I hope there is an ...
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How to get rid of Google's language detection permanently? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I access google.com outside the US?
Using Chrome 15 on Windows (all tho' I've learned it doesn't matter what browser you use), when using a Google product it ...
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Metric units in Google Maps?
Is it possible to tell Google Maps to use metric units? I know that for instance the German version does use metric units, but I'd rather use the English one.
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Is there such a thing as sensible way to change a search language?
For quite some time I struggle changing the language of some Google searches. The thing is, I am totally OK with the default language, currently German. However certain topics, yield better results if ...
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Why has my hotmail.co.uk account suddenly changed from English UK to English US?
I am English and when using my live.co.uk email has always used English UK but yesterday it suddenly started underlining my English UK spellings. If I type English US spellings as a check they are no ...
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Set Google Transit to 24-hour time notation while keeping it in English
Is it possible to change the time notation for Google Transit to a 24-hour time notation, while keeping the language in English otherwise? I don't like 12-hour time notation for public transportation, ...
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trello translation [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can I translate Trello into other languages, specifically French?
Is there any way to keep me informed about your translations plans? quite a few people in my project ...
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Web App for jotting down translations
I'm improving my French and am lucky enough to have lots of native speakers to talk with. When they correct me or say a phrase I haven't come across before, I want to make a record of it. Does anyone ...
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Character converter between languages [closed]
Is there such a thing?
I want to convert a text with latin characters to a text with characters in chinese, greek and so on (not translate, just convert).
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Youtube annonations in several languages
I have a video where nobody speaks but there are lot's of annotations in Russian. An important fact that these annotations are links to other videos.
I wanted to make the video more international and ...
