Selecting source and target language for translation

[RaptorCZ]

I need to translate texts from source language to target language using Google Translate. How to setup engine for that? I don't want to use any autodetect feature or anything. There is no "Main" language for me. Just translating from A to B and OS and IDE is in language C. Is it possible?

[YiiGuxing]

You can try using "main language" and the other options in the "target language":

[RaptorCZ]

Doesn't work.

Let's say I have whole environment in English. And I need to translate from Czech to Slovak. How to set it up? I really need to call Google translate with parameters CS and SK (https://translate.google.com/?sl=cs&tl=sk&text=test&op=translate).

If I set Main language to Czech, how to set Target language to Slovak? There is no option to select language other than Main or English.

[YiiGuxing]

Your main issue seems to be that the language auto-detection is not correctly identifying the language you expect?

[RaptorCZ]

Both languages are mostly wrong. Simple words or small combinations are "translated" to English or some kind of tokens

I want to select both languages and disable auto detection. There is no user feedback what language has been "detected" and translation is many times wrong even if target language is ok.

[YiiGuxing]

Indeed, without sufficient information, it's very difficult to accurately auto-detect the language, and if it could be correctly identified, you probably wouldn't have this problem. Perhaps we need an option for "source language" to set the default source language (or do you have a better solution? If so, please let me know), and I will find time to implement it. However, before that, could you submit a related feature request issue?

[YiiGuxing]

In addition, please also mention in the issue that "translate and replace" needs a specified "source language" and "target language", even though there is already an option to specify the "target language".

[RaptorCZ]

Will be nice if there is explicit option to select Source and Target language. There should be "checkbox" for "autodetect" for source if user want to use it.