Google Translate – How to Prohibit Translation of Specific Text

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How do I Google Translate such that all desired texts are left untranslated?

For example, when translating “Have you tried the Clipboard History window” to Hindi, the “Clipboard History Window” is translated to Hindi instead of being left as it is, as it is a technical term.

I have tried <span class=notranslate> but as it should be, it is valid only in HTML.

Best Answer

I don't think there's any special tag or character to insert to keep the text untranslated in Google's Translate form.

But since you are willing to manually add tags to keep your text untranslated, a trick is to prefix each word that you want to keep untranslated with a random string, for example "KEEP".

So Have you tried the KEEPClipboard KEEPHistory KEEPwindow will be translated to आप KEEPClipboard KEEPHistory KEEPwindow की कोशिश की and then with a text editor replace all "KEEP" with an empty string.

Definitely not the best work around, but there you go :)