HTML mangled when sent to Translation API. Some tags are completely out of order -> FUNCTIONALITY NOT PRESERVED! [78369189]

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oi...@gmail.com

created issue #1

Apr 21, 2018 01:20AM

I've noticed html tags out of order when I send the following piece of HTML to the translation API.
I originally noticed it in my code using the Python client library, but I've also replicated the same thing in the API Explorer.

As you can see, in the Output the first 2 elements are missing and instead inserted randomly in the middle of the snippet. FUNCTIONALITY IS NOT PRESERVED for the math tag and the equations completely break as a result.
I've hit this bug multiple times now with a large number of variations of this text. This is the shortest version, happy to provide the other ones as test cases.

My input is:

POST

https://translation.googleapis.com/language/translate/v2?key={YOUR_API_KEY}

{
"format": "html",
"source": "en",
"target": "sw",
"q": [
"The swirling fluid enters the control volume at radius \n \n \n<math xmlns=\"

http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\">\n<semantics>\n<mrow class=\"MJX-TeXAtom-ORD\">\n<mstyle displaystyle=\"true\" scriptlevel=\"0\">\n <msub>\n<mi>r</mi>\n<mrow class=\"MJX-TeXAtom-ORD\">\n <mn>1</mn>\n</mrow>\n </msub>\n</mstyle>\n</mrow>\n<annotation encoding=\"application/x-tex\">{\\displaystyle r_{1}}</annotation>\n</semantics>\n</math>\n\n.\n\n"
]
}

The response is as follows:

{
"data": {
"translations": [
{
"translatedText": " Maji ya swirling huingia kiasi cha udhibiti kwenye radius <math xmlns=\"

http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\"><semantics><mrow class=\"MJX-TeXAtom-ORD\"><mstyle displaystyle=\"true\" scriptlevel=\"0\"><msub><mi> r </mi><mrow class=\"MJX-TeXAtom-ORD\"><mn> 1 </mn></mrow></msub></mstyle></mrow><annotation encoding=\"application/x-tex\"> {\\ showstyle r_ {1}} </annotation></semantics></math> . "
}
]
}
}

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kn...@google.com <kn...@google.com> Apr 21, 2018 09:47PM

Assigned to kn...@google.com.

kn...@google.com <kn...@google.com> #2Apr 21, 2018 11:34PM

Status: Duplicate of

78317807

I have one question related to Google translate API. but it is not related to this issue.

When i am trying to access Google Translate API using javascript when the query string size is around 13000 characters i am getting server response error code 400. Can you please let me know what is the request size limit if any exist.

oi...@gmail.com <oi...@gmail.com> #3Apr 22, 2018 12:03AM

@vrames

according to Google API FAQ
The maximum size of each text to be translated is 5000 characters, not including any HTML tags.

kn...@google.com <kn...@google.com> #4Apr 22, 2018 05:04PM

Status: Assigned (reopened)

N/A

yi...@google.com <yi...@google.com> #5Dec 5, 2019 07:22PM

I also have a same problem some html tags who are divided in few tags , and it's problematic .. there is some news about it ??

sd...@google.com <sd...@google.com> #6Jun 9, 2020 05:54PM

I met with the problem just now, it seems the bug nof fixed yet.

me...@google.com <me...@google.com> #7Jun 25, 2020 11:29PM

Update: I found the bug triggered not only by anchor tag, but also others. It seems that the problem is the context, and when I replace the tag with special symbol, 【】 for example, it worked.

In some context:
<a id="text">bla bla...</a> -> <a id="text">alb</a>alb<a id="text">...</a>

after change anchor tag to 【】,it worked:
【bla bla ...】 -> 【alb alb ...】