Dimillian / Dimillian/IceCubesApp
Ability to manually choose the "translate from" language
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Description
I often see wrong guesses by the Translate function, but this one was rather blatant:
I also follow a guy who posts in an obscure Catalan dialect, and the Translate function guesses wrong almost every time, choosing source languages from all over Europe, and printing a result identical to the original. Yes, his account specifies Catalan - apparently Translate ignores that. But it offers to translate English posts from people whose configured language is not English... How does this supposedly work?
I know there is a request for permanent config for specific posters, and that would be great, but the ability to manually override any individual post's "translate from" language would be a big improvement.
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Research direction
Start from the Translate function and inspect how it currently chooses a post's source language. Add an individual-post option to select the “translate from” language, then verify that the selected language is used for that translation rather than the automatic guess.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- swift
- Domain
- mobile
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100