Anyone who's turned to a website to translate a foreign language knows that perfect computer translation remains elusive. That's especially true for hundreds of lesser-known languages. So ...

Next, using JavaScript, we test a string containing a Japanese character. If the browser has the appropriate language support, the string length will be equal to 1 (the single Japanese character).

Google Translate is getting brainier. The online translation tool recently started using a neural network to translate between some of its most popular languages – and the system is now so ...