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v1_beta.1.6

The following changes were made in this release.

New translation support

The following translations are now supported:

  • French into:

    • English
    • German
    • Italian
    • Spanish
  • Italian into:

    • English
    • German
    • French
    • Spanish
  • Spanish into:

    • English
    • German
    • French
    • Italian
  • Chinese (Mandarin) into English

v1_beta.1.5

The following changes were made in this release.

Change in the maximum length of the description

The maximum length of the ITEM_DESCRIPTION had been 100,000 characters, including markup/tags. This maximum has been reduced to 20,000 characters, but markup/tags no longer contribute to this maximum value.

New translation support

The following translations are now supported:

  • German into Polish
  • Polish into German

New enumeration value added

To support the new translations, the following value has been added to the LanguageEnum type:

  • pl (Polish)

Error message updates

The message for the following error code has been updated to:

  • 110007: Markups are not supported in input texts for title translation context.

The following new error code has been added:

  • 11008: Input text missing.

v1_beta.1.4

The following changes were made in this release.

Three new translations supported

English text may now be translated into either Portuguese or Russian. German text may now be translated into English.

New enumeration values added

To support the new translations, the following values were added to the LanguageEnum type:

  • pt (Portuguese)
  • ru (Russian)

v1_beta.1.3

The following changes were made in this release.

Six new translations supported

English and German text may now be translated into either French, Italian, or Spanish.

New enumeration values added

To support the new translations, the following values were added to the LanguageEnum type:

  • fr (French)
  • it (Italian)
  • es (Spanish)

v1_beta.1.1

The following sections describe the change made in this release.

Updated translation context support

Translations from English to German, and from Japanese to English, now support the ITEM_DESCRIPTION LanguageEnum type.

Updated text field string length

The maximum string length for the ITEM_TITLE enumeration value has been increased to 1,000 characters. The maximum string length for the ITEM_DESCRIPTION enumeration value remains at 100,000 characters.

v1_beta.1.2

The following change was made in this release.

English to Japanese translations now supported

English to Japanese translations are now supported. Since Japanese to English translations were already supported, and ja was already a value in the LanguageEnum type, there were no schema updates necessary for this release.

v1_beta.1.0

You can now translate the description of the item from English to Chinese. To support this, the ITEM_DESCRIPTION enumeration value was added to the LanguageEnum type.

v1_beta.0.0

This is the initial release of this API.

There is only one method for the initial release. Use this call to translate strings related to items listed for sale.

POST /commerce/translation/v1_beta/translate

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