Description: some posts either in another language or in multiple languages offer a translation icon, but clicking it displays an error, such as “An Error occurred: Bad Language Pair: en|en” First experienced with this post: Why did the mosaic „The tower and the Lamp“ get rejected? Most recently e…

The post about the Tower and the Lamp is in more than one language, and when that happens, there is no translation option. I found both English and German, and the translator can only translate one language. As for the Grazie post, I did get an error, and I think it’s because Niantic Wayfarer is i…

I’ve been looking around the forums for other posts in different languages, and it seems like I’m only able to replicate the issue with the 2 posts originally noted. Any that were posted before April 29th seem to be working fine with the translator, like this one from a couple weeks ago that’s main…

Here’s a mixed language post that translates without issues: Edits in Contribution Management Page - Discussion - #112 by SleepFuminchi

It seems to me that it affects mainly languages that don’t typically mix words from other languages. Japanese using English isn’t unusual, like Spanish. The German/English post and Italian/English mixed posts still error out when trying to translate. I find this odd, since the forums use Google T…

Mostly-English post that’s offering a translation icon (and failing to translate the small bits of non-English text): Removed wayspot appeal

This multi-language post translates properly: Invalid Wayspot Report Rejected - The Men's Warehouse - #16 by tehstone [IMG_7323]

Also translates properly: Invalid Wayspot Report Rejected - The Men's Warehouse - #24 by Xenopus

Thank you for your thorough verification.

Another successful translation! Niantic! Stop approving ineligible, boring, generic Wayspots! - #3 by tehstone

Forum Bug: Translation fails to detect source language properly

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NvlblNm April 30, 2024, 8:42pm 3

There is a translation option on the mixed language post.

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Forum Bug: Translation fails to detect source language properly

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