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…

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

Thank you for your thorough verification.

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

This one is interesting, as when I highlight each word and translate in Google Chrome, they aren’t recognized. Tesos actually comes back as being Galician for “tight,” but I guess tuxes could be tight. Teos isn’t even recognized as being in another language. Also want to add this post as being tr…

When I press the translate button I just get a bigger version of the picture so there’s definitely something afoot! [Screenshot_20240508-235433] The link above has been closed to users unlike Burger King, McDonald’s and The Mens Warehouse!

Forum Bug: Translation fails to detect source language properly

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NvlblNm May 8, 2024, 3:36pm 9

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

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Forum Bug: Translation fails to detect source language properly

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