Title: Detect Source Language Automatically
Last modified: July 23, 2024

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# Detect Source Language Automatically

 *  Resolved [Daan Verbaan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daanverbaan/)
 * (@daanverbaan)
 * [1 year, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/detect-source-language-automatically/)
 * Hi, I’m creating a forum and want use this plugin. Is there any way I can set
   the plugin to detect the source language instead of setting it fixed to one?
   
   The problem is that when the default language is English and someone posts something
   in German, it will translate into any language except English..

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 *  Plugin Author [edo888](https://wordpress.org/support/users/edo888/)
 * (@edo888)
 * [1 year, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/detect-source-language-automatically/#post-17914144)
 * Hi,
 * We do not have such feature in free version.
 * It is available in our paid version, however if your forum is mainly in English,
   we do not recommend translating it from English to English, since it will cause
   headaches.
 * Thanks! 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [Daan Verbaan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daanverbaan/)
 * (@daanverbaan)
 * [1 year, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/detect-source-language-automatically/#post-17914152)
 * Hi [@edo888](https://wordpress.org/support/users/edo888/), to be honest I use
   English as an example, the main language is Dutch, but we expect visitors from
   all over the world and it would be nice if they could participate. 
   Which package
   would offer this feature?
 * Thanks, Daan
 *  Plugin Author [edo888](https://wordpress.org/support/users/edo888/)
 * (@edo888)
 * [1 year, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/detect-source-language-automatically/#post-17914182)
 * Hi,
 * Again, having mixed language content on the original version will cause troubles.
   Do not expect that you can translate mixture of Dutch and German into Dutch without
   problems. Translating it to other languages will most likely be fine, but Dutch
   will be problematic.
 * Thanks! 🙂
 *  [freechelmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/freechelmi/)
 * (@freechelmi)
 * [1 year, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/detect-source-language-automatically/#post-17924465)
 * About automatic language detection , the free version seems to had to feature,
   was it removed , on the plugin it says for free version :
 * “Auto-switch language based on browser defined language”

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 * Last reply from: [freechelmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/freechelmi/)
 * Last activity: [1 year, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/detect-source-language-automatically/#post-17924465)
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