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Translation between SimCN and TraCN is broken

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Well, you know, for translation between simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese, it's quite simple, people just need to replace one word's (if it has) simplified form to traditional form (or vice versa) without changing the word itself.

(Even if you want more changes, there are indeed some flavor difference about using which words to describe one thing. For example, 硬件/硬體，it means hardware, but 體's simplified form is 体，so there's a little difference on the selection of words. But at its maximum, it's still in order and in low amount.)

However the translation provided by Firefox processes this like it's a total of 2 different languages and it results in a totally different output. Moreover, the output losts almost all original logics (not literally “all” but a 25~50% can already ruin any translation), which means it's unreadable, it's not translation in any degree but a nonsense writing.

So, are you using a low quality machinery translation and by the logic SCh-En-TCh?

Well, you know, for translation between simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese, it's quite simple, people just need to replace one word's (if it has) simplified form to traditional form (or vice versa) without changing the word itself. (Even if you want more changes, there are indeed some flavor difference about using which words to describe one thing. For example, 硬件/硬體，it means hardware, but 體's simplified form is 体，so there's a little difference on the selection of words. But at its maximum, it's still in order and in low amount.) However the translation provided by Firefox processes this like it's a total of 2 different languages and it results in a totally different output. Moreover, the output losts almost all original logics (not literally “all” but a 25~50% can already ruin any translation), which means it's unreadable, it's not translation in any degree but a nonsense writing. So, are you using a low quality machinery translation and by the logic SCh-En-TCh?

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Hi there,

I'll make sure to share the feedback with our team working on Firefox translate feature. Thanks for sharing your feedback. 🙌

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Hi blinkripplezw,

I wanted to clarify something based on the information the team shared with me.

It turns out that this is a known limitation of the current system. Right now, translations follow this process:

Original language → English → Target language

This means that instead of translating directly between two languages, the system first translates the original text into English before translating it into the target language.

The team is aware that this approach has limitations and recognizes it as an area for future improvement. While I don't have a timeline to share, it's something the team would like to address eventually.

I hope this helps clarify how the feature currently works! Thanks again for sharing your feedback with us 🙌

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