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Microsoft Translator Text API breaks notranslate spans

I'm using the Microsoft Translator Text API to translate some sentences. My sentences contains some parts of text that I need to not being translated.

To achieve this I using <span class="notranslate"></span> by wrapping not translatable text. It works good in most cases, by in some cases MT API breaks this spans.

Examples (Input -> Output):

  • some <span class="notranslate">1</span> text -> деякий 1 текст

  • some <span class="notranslate">1</span> another text -> деякий <span class="notranslate">1 інший </span> текст

Good Example:

  • some <span class="notranslate">1</span> text -> деякий <span class="notranslate">1</span> текст

I do not observe any regularities, it happens randomly. Maybe I miss something?

UPD:

I tried to send headers Content-Type: text/xml or Content-Type: text/html - the same result in both: engine breaks some spans.

Solution

  • I found the solution.

    Microsoft Translator API 3.0 Documentation recommends to use <div class="notranslate"></div> instead of <span class="notranslate"></span>.

    I use API 2 version, but seems like after changing wrapper to <div>, MT API stopped breaking of my notranslate wrappers.