Override Safari language autodetection for translation

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Override Safari language autodetection for translation

On the Japanese website of a US-based company, headings and menu titles are given in English, but the majority of the website is written in Japanese. If I try to use the webpage translation function of Safari to translate from Japanese to English, the option "Translate to English" is grayed out, presumably because Safari has autodetected the language of the page as English (and in fact, the first line of the webpage's code is <html lang="en-GB">). Is there anyway to override Safari's autodetection of the language to allow translation of the page into English?

MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 26.2

Posted on Jan 25, 2026 7:56 PM

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Answer 1

jencinas63 Author

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Jan 26, 2026 4:46 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

Sure. This is just an example:

https://www.robertwalters.co.jp/en/industrialandautomation/jobs/designengineering/1873156-%e6%a9%9f%e6%a2%b0%e7%a0%94%e7%a9%b6%e9%96%8b%e7%99%ba%e6%8b%85%e5%bd%93-analytical-equipment-design-engineer.html

In this case, there is a workaround if you first switch to the fully Japanese version of the website and then translate. However, I occasionally run across this problem on Japanese and Korean websites with mixtures of English and Japanese/Korean text with no alternative language website available.

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Tom Gewecke

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Jan 26, 2026 6:49 AM in response to jencinas63

Thanks! I don't see a way to do it with Safari, but Chrome works ok for me.

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Tom Gewecke

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Jan 26, 2026 4:30 AM in response to jencinas63

Can you provide the url?

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