Bad translation: Treating Arabic as Chinese [solved]

Forum reply: https://en.numista.com/forum/topic140223.html#p1124103

Translation attempt:

Arabic is not currently supported by the translate function so returns essentially gibberish. 

Hello,

rsirian1's answer is correct.
 

Here is the list of supported languages:

• BG - Bulgarian
• CS - Czech
• DA - Danish
• DE - German
• EL - Greek
• EN - English
• ES - Spanish
• ET - Estonian
• FI - Finnish
• FR - French
• HU - Hungarian
• ID - Indonesian
• IT - Italian
• JA - Japanese
• KO - Korean
• LT - Lithuanian
• LV - Latvian
• NB - Norwegian (Bokmål)
• NL - Dutch
• PL - Polish
• PT - Portuguese 
• RO - Romanian
• RU - Russian
• SK - Slovak
• SL - Slovenian
• SV - Swedish
• TR - Turkish
• UK - Ukrainian
• ZH - Chinese

Hi @Xavier,

What about a help article with this? To avoid future questions… or know what to answer.

A new help section can be created with articles about the forum.

Shouldn't we disable the translate button when an unsupported language is detected? It's weird that it states that the translation is from Chinese to English, although the text isn't Chinese at all.

Apparently the translation tool I'm using detects as Chinese when an Arabic text is provided.

Disabling translation of non-supported languages would require to detect all unsupported languages, which might be tricky. I don't think it's worth the effort.

Hello,

It's now possible to translate Arabic messages on the forum.

Thank you 🙏