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It passes the "Turkey" <=> "turkey" test: "In Turkey they sometimes eat turkey." => "In der Türkei essen sie manchmal Truthahn." :D

Super cool! Real-time translation, in the browser, running locally! And sure, not state of the art / on the level of deepl, but on the level of Google Translate, 2015ish, maybe? Amazing!

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However, "Turkey is not a common food in Turkey." != "Die Türkei ist kein gemeinsames Essen in der Türkei."

Well, that's technically ambiguous in English too. I don't think many people are eating their own country ;) .

Hmm, is it ambiguous then? Seems there's only one interpretation

Well, there's what people would typically interpret it as. Then you have the translation here which is a correct interpretation, but not that informative.

Also, „common“ should be translated to „üblich“ instead of „gemeinsam“. „Gemeinsam“ is more like „collective“ as in „a collective effort“.

As usual, deepl doesn't disappoint.

Interestingly, Google fails on both of these sentences and always translates "Turkey" as the country. DeepL on the other hand gets it right in both cases.

You should find another test case :) https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/6/2/un-registers-turkiye...

Just reformulate:

"Türkiye quit being called Turkey cold turkey"

They actually put an umlaut into the official name to really make sure it won't be used correctly internationally?

I was thinking about ISO-3166 part, but it seems standard contains already some names with special character. i.e, Réunion. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_3166_country_cod...

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