Comments on: How to translate foreign languages in Opera?

By: ResearchWizard

ResearchWizard — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:16:56 +0000

To look up English / German translations for words I prefer leo.org and it is very easy to integrate it in Opera as custom search (maybe this works also with some Russian dictionary?).
Just once I go to the page where I can enter the word to translate (http://dict.leo.org/ende?lang=de&lp=ende), right click on the search field - create search (I enter “leo” as shortcut, very intuitive IMHO).

And now I can highlight a word on any page, right click, Search with - LEO

By: Fleawin

Fleawin — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:00:33 +0000

I found a button for it already made: it has many languages implemented in on (my buttom would have been from _one_ language to _one_ other). This one is far better. (even if it uses babelfish, wich i personally rather dislike.

http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=&trurl=http%3a%2f%2foperawiki.info%2fPowerButtons#translate

By: Fleawin

Fleawin — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:53:13 +0000

Translator wrote:
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The Opera translate feature should offer translation of whole web pages too (into English), eg. by loading Google translation of URL.
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I am pretty sure you can use buttons to translate whole pages using buttons.

My idea is to modify the “validate html” button found on the page linked under. To send the page to google translator (or any other translation site) instead of the html verification site should be easy for anyone familiar to making buttons. I tried, but I was unable to set settings as “from language” and “to language”. Then again, I have never made any buttons before. I am sure it is easy as pie, but it is late and i have no time to find out what all the “%XX” are standing for.

If someone familiar to making buttons could go to:
http://operawiki.info/CustomButtons

and post an example button (english–>french/chinese/whatever) it would be nice

By: Cyro

Cyro — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:48:54 +0000

You know, they are right. Opera should affiliate with other online translation websites to provide even more possible translations. Maybe it’s time to review the translator partnership. Just think about it.

By: Investor

Investor — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:19:34 +0000

The Opera translate feature should offer translation of whole web pages too (into English), eg. by loading Google translation of URL.

Now user needs to mark a sentence eg. on a Japanese page, then right click for Google search, hope Google finds correct URL source, then download the translated version of page.

*Translate page* feature would do it automatically

By: serdelll

serdelll — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:23:31 +0000

…but where is polish language??

By: Steve Barker

Steve Barker — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 06:05:23 +0000

Would it be possible to add Dutch to the menu too?

By: Kirill

Kirill — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:23:32 +0000

It’s very bad that there is not russian language in this menu by default.

I recommend for Opera Software to use PROMT for russianenglish, russiandeutsch and etc. translations.

1. It’s one of the best russian translators

2. It will not conflict with interest of other translation services

3. It will be yet another source of money for Opera

By: anoman

anoman — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:06:14 +0000

And another one:
To bring up the context menu you can also double click to select a word or triple click to select a sentence and open the context menu.

This are just a few of those little things, why I really love Opera.

By: anoman

anoman — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:59:25 +0000

Just a little extra tip:
Hold “Shift” while clicking a context menu item (like translate or search) to open the result in a new tab.