One problem with machine translation is that machines don’t know
when to stop translating. For example Yahoo’s Babel Fish
translator translates my last name “Cook” literally to
“Cocinero” in Spanish and “Cuisinier” in French. Today Google
announced a way to tell its translator that text should not be
translated. Place such text inside a <span> tag with the
attribute class="notranslate". I tried this on a web page that
explained that a certain piece of code printed out “Hello
world.” Since “Hello world” is literal output, it should be left
untranslated, not turned into, for example, “Bonjour le monde.”
The solution was to modify the HTML to say The code above prints
“<span class="notranslate">Hello world</span>.” To prevent an
entire page from being translated, add the following tag in the
<head> section of the page. <meta name="google"
value="notranslate">