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[–] moon@lemmy.cafe 28 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm hoping their translation software ends up supporting Chinese/Japanese. Also come to Android please! Hopefully on Android in and out of reader mode.

[–] shreddy_scientist@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

I would dig this, I'd bet it's in the works. Biggest question is when it'll be released.

[–] brie@beehaw.org 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The addon version works on Android.. There's an issue/"idea" for Chinese support as well. If I recall correctly, though, one of the problems is tokenization (the languages currently supported for example have spaces to separate words).

[–] moon@lemmy.cafe 3 points 10 months ago

Doesn't seem to be compatible with my Firefox Android? I'm on the stable branch. Currently I'm using the TWP - Translate Web Pages extension, which has great integration with Firefox Android and pops up correctly in a mobile format when it detects another language. Unfortunately it uses Google translate, so it's not local.

[–] library_napper@monyet.cc 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Is it local or cloud-based?

[–] shreddy_scientist@lemmy.ml 9 points 10 months ago

Local, that's what's so rad about it!

[–] EccTM@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I wish they'd remove the US-only geo-restriction they have on half the autofill functionality.

[–] Alto@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Isn't that due to stricter data collection/retention regulations in the EU?

[–] Vincent@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

I think it's just because some things have country-specific formats. For example, if you want to prefill credit card details, you have to figure out how the credit card fields are labelled.