From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: google-translate Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 01:29:15 +0200 Message-ID: <874miuc59w.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87oahdl3g3.fsf@mbork.pl> <87twr5nrhg.fsf@gmail.com> <87d1xs5yd5.fsf_-_@debian.uxu> <87twqvoyo7.fsf_-_@debian.uxu> <87eghyv9ji.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1442445697 15912 80.91.229.3 (16 Sep 2015 23:21:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 23:21:37 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 17 01:21:22 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZcM0v-00064a-Sc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2015 01:21:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54380 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZcM0v-00074m-OW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Sep 2015 19:21:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45607) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZcM0j-00074a-UJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Sep 2015 19:21:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZcM0g-0008IP-R3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Sep 2015 19:21:09 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:47481) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZcM0g-0008I3-La for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Sep 2015 19:21:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZcM0d-0005il-93 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2015 01:21:03 +0200 Original-Received: from nl106-137-244.student.uu.se ([130.243.137.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 2015 01:21:03 +0200 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-244.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 2015 01:21:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl106-137-244.student.uu.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:k/WuUF02p5vvNniuCyZyvpii92E= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:107233 Archived-At: Alex Kost writes: > Because you are doing it wrong. It should be: > > (google-translate-translate "sv" "en" "bok") > (google-translate-translate "sv" "da" "stuga") > (google-translate-translate "sv" "de" "stuga") The help says Translate TEXT from SOURCE-LANGUAGE to TARGET-LANGUAGE. so it isn't stated what form should be used. "sv", "en", "da", and "de" are not languages but designations. And regardless of whatever, when a language is inputed that isn't recognized, the program should (fail to) verify the input and say this doesn't make sense, instead of displaying br0ken data. Now it is even more confusing as it seems to work in the first case, but not in the subsequent ones. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573