# Missing translation button

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-translation-button/180373>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Tags:** translator\
**Created:** [February 19, 2021, 5:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-translation-button/180373 "2021-02-19T17:57:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![simon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/simon/32/339122_2.png) [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2021, 10:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-translation-button/180373/2 "2021-02-19T22:26:45Z")

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> [@ced](#):
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> I think I found the common pattern of those cases, it is when the post start by a quote. It looks like the language detected is then the English instead of the language of the content the user has posted.

I’m not able to test this, but that sounds likely to be the cause of the issue. When you are seeing this, is the quote at the start of the post in English, or is it in the same language as you are wanting to translate from?

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