MagicalTux in Japan » Google http://blog.magicaltux.net Geekness brought me to Japan! Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:31:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Google Translation and Japanese (half-width katakana) http://blog.magicaltux.net/2010/01/19/google-translation-and-japanese-half-width-katakana/ http://blog.magicaltux.net/2010/01/19/google-translation-and-japanese-half-width-katakana/#comments Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:59:09 +0000 MagicalTux http://blog.magicaltux.net/?p=421 Google Translation seems to have some difficulties with half-width katakana in google translate.

My text “ｸﾞ-ｸﾞﾙｲﾝｸ ﾌﾘｺﾐ” reads as “Go-goruinku furikomi”, which I’d translate as “Google Inc Bank transfer”. I’m just wondering how google reached a translation of “¸ – ¸ Ý Ù ² ¸ Ø º Ì Ð”.

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