Any chance we can get a "translate to English" button for these forums? [closed]

Question

I didn't see any place to auto translate and cannot read a large percentage of the questions in here.  Have to cut and paste into Google Translate to read them.

Answer 1

Most of the content here is in English. There are only a couple questions in different languages and I usually ask the people to translate since the questions and answers are supposed to be helpful for everyone and not just for the one who asks this time. If you notice a question or answer in different language, feel free to use comment and ask for translation. I can not follow everything.

Automatic translation is helpful to get a gasp of the idea of the question or answer, but it can never (at least not now and from some languages) replace real translation as it might miss the point.

Comments

The subject field is the one I need translated in order to see the questions asked without opening each one.

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It's a small trick but place your cursor just after the punctuation mark or final word of the subject / question and right click.  It will translate the question without having to click on the question. Do NOT hover over the question activating the hyperlink underline.

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All this time, I thought because Chrome was set to auto-translate that it meant everything would be translated.  Couldn't figure out how to make it work all the time and had no inkling that clicking on a random empty spot on the page would translate everything. Thought I'd come back in here and say thanks, because I've been using this little hidden trick ever since I got it to work on these forums with your suggestion. Has saved me a LOT of copying and pasting to Google translate.  Thanks, TigreToot!

Answer 2

Which browser are you using ?

As TigreToot already said, Google Translate is integrated in Chrome.

If you are using Firefox, there's a pretty cool plugin for Google Translate :
https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/to-google-translate/
This allows you to Google Translate a page or piece of text by selecting it and right clicking.

Comments

I ran out of time to research what you posted about Firefox and thanks for providing that link.  I new that browser would provide something since it is a competitor of Chrome.

Answer 3

I use Chrome which allows me to right click and translate the page immediately without pasting it into Google.  The translation matrix is not always accurate but it is better than nothing.

Comments

No translate option is available when I right click in Chrome.  My browser is up to date and sometimes automatically translates pages, however, it doesn't translate these forums.

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Interesting, Chrome apparently does allow a right click translate here in the comments/replies, just not on the subject lines shown on https://project-gc.com/qa/?qa=questions
Those are what I need a quick, easy translation for.  Go figure. I took a screenshot showing that the option disappears for the questions in bold text.

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Try hovering at the end of the question right behind the punctuation in the clear space.  I can get it to translate the question even without clicking on it.  You can do both from the just the questions page and even after you click on a question.  Yes, right clicking anywhere in the blank space next to answers and comments will translate the entire page for you to include questions.

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Just right-clicking on the other parts of the page and telling it to translate did the trick for the whole page. Didn't realize it would work for everything on the page. I've already told Chrome to auto-translate everything for me, but evidently it doesn't.  I'm not sure if this trick will work on mobile or not, but at least it works on desktop.  Thanks.