Make Kagi widgets works on all languages.

WB0iTF

When I search "hello in french" the translation widget works but "hello en français" dosn't make the widget appear.

Anybody who dosn't search in english.

nobodywasishere

Currently it's based on your interface language. If you set it to french, does it work?

WB0iTF

nobodywasishere Nope, maybe that's a bug?

Emu7037

nobodywasishere no, the widgets also dont't work for me in portuguese, with the interface set to portuguese

nobodywasishere

Ahh okay, so it looks like the triggers for the translate widget aren't translated currently. We can add support for that

Seven

Kagi Search seems to recognize translation requests only for a very strict English query pattern.

For example, translate hello to french works correctly. However, if the words are reordered slightly, like hello translate to french, it will be interpreted as translating "hello translate" into French.

Split view comparing 'translate hello to french' and 'hello translate to french' results

Kagi also seems to only support translation requests written in English. Equivalent requests written in other languages are not recognized. I've tested:

French: traduire bonjour en anglais
Chinese (Simplified): 翻译你好为英文

Split view comparing 'traduire bonjour en anglais' and '翻译你好为英文' results

In addition, translation requests targeting Chinese (translate hello to chinese) also appear to fail even when written in English. I've also tested multiple variants, including Chinese (Simplified / Traditional), Simplified / Traditional Chinese, and none of them work.

Split view comparing 'translate hello to chinese' and 'translate hello to chinese (simplified)' results

Split view comparing 'translate hello to simplified chinese' and 'translate hello to chinese (traditional)' results

Kagi Search should recognize translation requests more reliably, even when:

the word order changes slightly
the request is written in non-English languages
different language name variants are used