MS Translator API Error - not working for Serbian/Croatian

Question

Hi guys,

I have a question regarding MS Translator API. I  followed "Walkthrough: Microsoft Translator in a C# Console Application" tutorial so I could use MS translate API from my app. When I try translating from "English" to "French" or some other language, everything works perfectly fine. But when translating from/to Serbian/Croatian, I get following error message: "Parameter: From has an invalid pattern of characters".

Since I am using automatic language detection, I didn't hard code any of the language acronyms:

string input = "Petar voli da ide u skolu"; // serbian
var sourceLanguage = Translator.DetectSourceLanguage(tc, input); // gets Croatian

var targetLanguage = PickRandomLanguage(tc); // select random language by using

// Handle the error condition
if (sourceLanguage != null)
{
 var translationResult = Translator.TranslateString(tc, input, sourceLanguage, targetLanguage); // exception "Parameter: From has an invalid pattern of characters".
 if (translationResult != null)
 {

 }
}

Is there a problem with the API, or Serbian/Croatian are not supported?

Answer 1

Hi,

Serbian/Croatian are supported.

There are two Serbian languages, Serbian (Cyrillic) and Serbian (Latin) check if the right one is selected.

Regards,
Azam Khan

Answer 2

Hi Azam,

I tried using both (Cyrillic and Latin), as well as Bosnian and Croatian (all similar if not the same), and result is the same, it keeps returning: "Parameter: From has an invalid pattern of characters" or "Parameter: To has an invalid pattern of characters"...