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Jeppie
Making moves
Status: In development

I think many people including me want to have the Japanese translation option for websites. I need to use now google translate for translating Japanese websites. And I don't like it to use every time google translate for that.

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UnseenLurker
Strollin' around

I was very excited when the new translator came with 117. Only to find that it can only translate like 2 languages in a trench coat. Nothing wrong with starting with a small scope, far from it, particularly when you are working on something as complex as a client-side translator, but it would be nice (really nice, actually) if the tab where you install new languages had a roadmap of what languages are coming and when to expect them.

marco
Employee
Employee

We are planning to start working on Japanese in the second half of 2024.

dai
Strollin' around

@marco 

 We are a huge thanks to the team!

Robot-Inventor
Strollin' around

@marcoThank you for the update! Firefox will be more comfortable and amazing than ever.

Mohawk952
New member

Looking forward to that, thanks. ^_^

298gama
New member

As a Japanese speaker, this is very good news. thank you.

OutlawHusbando
Making moves
I think adding more language is very important to really be usable, as most of us want to bridge to Asian languages, thus Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean... should be our priority next.
bxjacky
New member

Still waiting for this in 2024

Magio
New member

@marcoHas work on Japanese support already begun as planned?

marco
Employee
Employee

@Magio  not yet, but it should start soon.

duvjones
Strollin' around

That is nice to know, thank you @marco 

marcopixel
New member

Japanese language support is one of the things holding me back of fully switching to Firefox.

Most websites have either no manual translation and the current extensions are kinda horrible to use...

@marcoIs there maybe a roadmap/dashboard for features? 😁

Progress2000
Making moves

@marcopixelTry using Simple Translate extension. It is awesome.

nordzilla
Employee
Employee

Hello!

I just wanted to update everyone that our team has started work on supporting Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (commonly abbreviated as CJK), both in terms of training these language models and ensuring that our platform can support these character sets.

We appreciate your patience and thank you for your continued support!

Status changed to: In development
Jon
Community Manager
Community Manager

Hey all,

Exciting news...

We are updating the status here to 'In development' — see @nordzilla's recent comment in the thread for more details, including links to track the work.

Please feel free to continue sharing feedback and stay tuned for more updates 😀🙌