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"Special" characters in the search box
I've got my search box set up with a direct link to Google's Finnish to English translator (because I'm learning Finnish) and I basically can't use it because any characters with diaereses (umlauts) just come up in Google as question marks. I know it's to do with the Opera search box because in Konqueror I don't have the problem.The link I'm using is http://translate.google.com.au/translate_t?hl=&ie=UTF-8&text=%s&sl=fi&tl=en#
If you use that as a search box and type in "mitä", instead of translating it to "what", it'll translate it to "mit?".
Can this be fixed? It must make the search box pretty hard to use for European users.
I'm having this exact same problem (except I'm using the French translator).
The link I'm using is this: http://translate.google.com/#fr|en|%s
The problem is that when I try a a search with a special character, Opera is converting said character to something else. For example, if I want to search the meaning of the word "mité" through that search, Opera will actually redirect me to this page: http://translate.google.com/#fr|en|mit%E9
However, if I manually go to this address: http://translate.google.com/#fr|en|mité then it works as intended
The link I'm using is this: http://translate.google.com/#fr|en|%s
The problem is that when I try a a search with a special character, Opera is converting said character to something else. For example, if I want to search the meaning of the word "mité" through that search, Opera will actually redirect me to this page: http://translate.google.com/#fr|en|mit%E9
However, if I manually go to this address: http://translate.google.com/#fr|en|mité then it works as intended
Hmm. Using the 10.51 stable release, I've set up the Google Translate search using "Create search" function via the context menu (Translate from: "Detect language" Translate to: "English"). Pasted "mitä" in the search box and performed the search. Result was correct "mitä" in the original text field, "Finnish to English Translation": "what", with dictionary definitions for adjective: 1. what; adverb: 1.most; pronoun: 1. what. I've no knowledge of Finnish but seems working fine. Maybe the issue is with your query string set up?
The automatically created query string created was:
I've also tried set up another search with "Translate from: Finnish" and still have no issue. The query string for Finnish to English was:
The automatically created query string created was:
js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&text=%s&file=&sl=auto&tl=en"Use Post" was ticked.
I've also tried set up another search with "Translate from: Finnish" and still have no issue. The query string for Finnish to English was:
js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&text=%s&file=&sl=fi&tl=en
Desktop OS: Windows 8 x64 + 7 x64 sp1 x2 + XP sp3; Mobile OS: Android 4.0.4
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Looking for Opera 12.16 or earlier? Try
http://www.opera.com/download/guide/?custom=yes ,
http://get.geo.opera.com/pub/opera/win or
ftp://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/win
Want to send me a message? Send it to mimismum(at)myopera.com (not mimi_s_mum etc)
Looking for Opera 12.16 or earlier? Try
http://www.opera.com/download/guide/?custom=yes ,
http://get.geo.opera.com/pub/opera/win or
ftp://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/win
I know I haven't looked at this post for a while, but I tried copying and pasting both of your strings into my search string, and I get exactly the same result - mit?. Are you doing anything different from my screenshot?
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Ahhh I get you now, and I got it working 
. I couldn't find any mention of how to use the "Use POST" option, even in the Opera help, but the help did mention the right-click option to automatically create a search, and that does work with the "Use POST" option which allows 'special' characters.
Kiiti!
. I couldn't find any mention of how to use the "Use POST" option, even in the Opera help, but the help did mention the right-click option to automatically create a search, and that does work with the "Use POST" option which allows 'special' characters.Kiiti!