Wednesday, 4. April 2007, 20:48:11
Japanese Translation broken?
Translate to/From Japanese seems to be borked :| This is a feature I use semi-regularly, but it looks like Opera's redirecting this to http://honyaku.yahoo.co.jp/transtext... instead of the regular Infoseek site (as of today I think?). Unfortunately either Opera doesn't seem to be passing the information properly or the Yahoo site doesn't read the information passed properly and doesn't actually translate the text. Instead I'm being presented with a reset field and an ad.Since this is run via a redirect through Opera's servers, it doesn't seem to be tied to any particular version of the browser, but for the record I'm under WinXP and tried it with 9.1, 9.2 8767, and 9.2 8769.
Thursday, 5. April 2007, 08:53:16
OH, NO! Not again!!!
(If you read this thread, you'd understand the reason for my moaning: http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=146038 )
I believe you are absolutely right about this being Opera's server's problem. My guess is it's got to do with Opera hooking up with Yahoo! in cellphone browser market or something like that. I'm afraid you need to file a bug-report. (I did it last time: http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=146038&t=1175762220&page=1#comment1657347 )
Meanwhile you can try this workaround described at: http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=149112&t=1153213579&page=1#comment1654305
Good luck with your bug report.
(If you read this thread, you'd understand the reason for my moaning: http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=146038 )
I believe you are absolutely right about this being Opera's server's problem. My guess is it's got to do with Opera hooking up with Yahoo! in cellphone browser market or something like that. I'm afraid you need to file a bug-report. (I did it last time: http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=146038&t=1175762220&page=1#comment1657347 )
Meanwhile you can try this workaround described at: http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=149112&t=1153213579&page=1#comment1654305
Good luck with your bug report.
Friday, 6. April 2007, 09:59:09
The translation site has changed his html form in order to block external use of it (like Opera did).
Here is a new search you can add in Opera to go on translate on the fly using Nifty:
Nifty's translation is good level like the one used before by Opera. It's not word by word crappy translation like Google or Babelfish (sorry for them).
Here is a new search you can add in Opera to go on translate on the fly using Nifty:
- Go there : http://nifty.amikai.com/amitext/indexUTF8.jsp
- Check the 日本語 > 英語 radio button
- Right click the テキスト入力（4000字以内） text area
- Choose Create search and name it as you wish and choose a shortcut (like ja for example)
Nifty's translation is good level like the one used before by Opera. It's not word by word crappy translation like Google or Babelfish (sorry for them).
Friday, 6. April 2007, 19:39:19
Thanks for that, I had just hit the same problem today, with ads being served up when I tried to translate something. I'm surprised though that it seems Opera had built in a J-E translation link to a service they didn't have permission to use, I mean the translate thing isn't a user-modifiable list like the search engine list it.
Thursday, 12. April 2007, 04:16:15 (edited)
Originally posted by Tomcat76:
How do you get that in the "Translate" context menu?
I simply replaced the search.ini "Search Engine" 33 and 34 entries with the text blocks mentioned in this post:
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=146038&t=1176350657&page=1#comment1657462
I showed replacement blocks 34 and 33 in reverse order within that post, btw - it fit better with the discussion flow at that time.
It seems that Opera 9.20 is now using search.ini from the Program Files -> Opera subdirectory, rather than my Profile subdirectory (which is where I had placed the prior updates for Japanese <-> English translations using the @nifty service).
- wader
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