Bug 155058 - supporting more languages in translation feature
Summary: supporting more languages in translation feature
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
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(earliest affected)
7.5.0.0 beta1+
Hardware: All All
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Blocks: Writer-Enhancements
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Reported: 2023-04-28 06:03 UTC by Fahad Al-Saidi
Modified: 2025-07-06 03:10 UTC (History)
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Description Fahad Al-Saidi 2023-04-28 06:03:48 UTC
Description:
This follows #34058 . Right now, DeepL doesn't support Arabic and many more languages. I think if LibreOffice can be more agnostic and accepting different providers other than DeepL, it will solve this problem.

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Comment 1 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2023-04-28 09:44:51 UTC
The DeepL integration should now support the following languages:

https://support.deepl.com/hc/en-us/articles/4407573562386-Languages-in-the-browser-extensions

As of today, here are some languages that are among the most spoken in the world (more than 80 million speakers[1]) and notably missing from DeepL:

- Hindi
- Arabic
- Bengali
- Urdu
- Nigerian Pidgin
- Marathi
- Telugu
- Tamil
- Yue Chinese
- Vietnamese
- Tagalog
- Wu Chinese

Supporting LibreTranslate, which is Open Source and supports some of this, would help: https://libretranslate.com/

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers
Comment 2 QA Administrators 2025-07-06 03:10:46 UTC
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