Internet Explorer does not translate most content in some languages

  • When using the Toolbar to translate the site, only in Internet Explorer (Tested 11, but may exist on other versions) the returned translation truncates each line pretty heavily.

    It happens in most non-Romantic languages, but I noticed it most immediately in Japanese. If it switches from needing to render Kanji to Hiragana or Katakana or vice-versa, it just truncates the rest of the line. Sometimes this results in only a single word on a line.

    Also, in some cases, text isn’t shown at all. In some cases this is due to the tags wrapping the text existing on a separate line like:

    <h2>
    some text
    </h2>

    instead of <h2>some text</h2>

    But in other cases, such as the missing Text Widget from the left sidebar, this does not appear to be the case as the HTML is all inline within that text widget.

    I’ve noticed that if I use Google Translate on their own website (So the translated website is within an <iframe>), these problems do not exist.

    Chrome:
    Chrome

    IE 11:
    IE 11

    IE 11 through Google Translate:
    IE 11 through Google Translate

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  • Hi @d4mation,

    Thank you for posting this and making such detailed information known to the public. At this point, I will take notice and see if there’s anything that I might be able to do to fix this.

    I’m not sure that I have a great solution for fixing this type of issue at this point, but wanted to make sure you know I read your post.

    Thanks so much! Rob Myrick

    Thread Starter d4mation

    (@d4mation)

    Thanks for the response, @rm2773! If it helps, I could get you a link to our Staging Site to take a look. We’ll just need to ensure it is on the proper Git Branch for the Theme if you need to look at it.

    Ok yes, anything that can be done, so that I can open a browser and see it would help, just because the code will be there. I’m thinking it will be HTML elements issue, and CSS will need to be used to accommodate those issues.

    It’s usually not this big of an issue, as you are seeing here with your site. So taking a look would be nice to see.

    Thanks again! Rob

    Thread Starter d4mation

    (@d4mation)

    @rm2773 Sorry for the late response. Despite having checked the box, I don’t seem to get email notifications for this.

    Here’s a link to the Staging site: https://dzs2.staging.wpengine.com/?ie_override

    Right now we have it set to not show at all for IE 11 and below due to this issue which is the reason for the query parameter. I also wanted to make sure we had this implementation merged into our master branch so that hopefully any other branches we’d be testing from here on out will include this code so that it will always be visible for you. Hope it helps!

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