Allow language detection [#654594]

On all the sites I manage and build there are articles in various languages. There is nothing such as 'default language'.

It would be great if this module could automatically detect the current page's prevailing language. In the Google code at http://translate.google.com/translate_tools you can achieve it by setting language to 'auto'. But this needs to be implemented in your "on fly" method in order to get rid of the annoying blue bar that appears with the above Google code (see and support http://groups.google.com/group/google-translate-general/browse_thread/th...).

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Comment #1

dnotes CreditAttribution: dnotes commented 12 January 2010 at 13:02

+1 - I'll need this eventually if I'm to continue using this module beyond initial site building.

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Vacilando CreditAttribution: Vacilando commented 10 February 2010 at 15:14

This is really urgent because if you try to translate a page in another language it does not work (or rather, it translates just some words from the non-English text that happen to be spelled the same way as some English words, etc.)

You can easily get the language from $node->language and use it instead of 'en' as the source. Here is how I got it to work satisfactorily for me, but I would like to switch to your module as soon as you have implemented something like this. Thanks.

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mrgoltra CreditAttribution: mrgoltra commented 29 April 2010 at 03:49

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yannickoo

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CreditAttribution: yannickoo commented 15 September 2010 at 02:53

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donquixote CreditAttribution: donquixote commented 10 February 2011 at 14:28

that would be nice, yes.

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Juan C CreditAttribution: Juan C commented 12 February 2011 at 03:17

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franzkewd CreditAttribution: franzkewd commented 16 February 2011 at 01:18

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alpp CreditAttribution: alpp commented 17 March 2011 at 02:16

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ViNCE CreditAttribution: ViNCE commented 14 February 2014 at 11:54

Issue summary:

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changing pageLanguage: '$default_language' to pageLanguage: 'auto' did it for me -->

function googleTranslateElementInit2() {new google.translate.TranslateElement({pageLanguage: 'auto', autoDisplay: false}, 'google_translate_element2');}

I'm using it on a page where I have multilingual entries on one page that should be translated in another language. The language of each paragraph is known. So I also add the lang attribute in the view e.g.

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