# MOSIP language translate issue

**URL:** <https://community.mosip.io/t/mosip-language-translate-issue/1028>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** pre-registration\
**Created:** [February 14, 2024, 6:44am UTC](https://community.mosip.io/t/mosip-language-translate-issue/1028 "2024-02-14T06:44:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![manikandan\_manikanda](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.mosip.io/manikandan_manikanda/32/946_2.png) [@manikandan\_manikanda](https://community.mosip.io/u/manikandan_manikanda)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2024, 6:44am UTC](https://community.mosip.io/t/mosip-language-translate-issue/1028/1 "2024-02-14T06:44:51Z")

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Preregistration demographic details screen, I tried to convert the English(eng) word to French (fra) the translation service got a null result. I am choosing only English and French language only. could you please help us to resolve that

POST: [https://prereg.mosip.easyngo.com/preregistration/v1/transliteration/transliterate](https://prereg.mosip.easyngo.com/preregistration/v1/transliteration/transliterate)  
Payload: {  
“id”: “mosip.pre-registration.transliteration.transliterate”,  
“request”: {  
“from\_field\_lang”: “eng”,  
“from\_field\_value”: “manikandan”,  
“to\_field\_lang”: “fra”  
},  
“version”: “1.0”,  
“requesttime”: “2024-02-14T06:42:48.235Z”  
}  
response: {  
“id”: “mosip.pre-registration.transliteration.transliterate”,  
“version”: “1.0”,  
“responsetime”: “2024-02-14T06:42:48.332Z”,  
“response”: null,  
“errors”: [  
{  
“errorCode”: “PRG\_TRL\_APP\_002”,  
“message”: “Unsupported language”  
}  
]  
}

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**Author:** ![sanchi-singh24](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.mosip.io/sanchi-singh24/32/538_2.png) [@sanchi-singh24](https://community.mosip.io/u/sanchi-singh24)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2024, 11:55am UTC](https://community.mosip.io/t/mosip-language-translate-issue/1028/2 "2024-02-15T11:55:24Z")

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Hi @manikandan_manikanda

Thanks for sharing the error response let our team look into this and reply to you with a solution.

Best Regards,  
Team MOSIP

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**Author:** ![mayuradesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e19adc/32.png) [@mayuradesh](https://community.mosip.io/u/mayuradesh)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2024, 12:21pm UTC](https://community.mosip.io/t/mosip-language-translate-issue/1028/3 "2024-02-15T12:21:11Z")

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Direct English to French translation is not supported by the transliteration library used (ICU4J) hence you are seeing this error.

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**Author:** ![manikandan\_manikanda](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.mosip.io/manikandan_manikanda/32/946_2.png) [@manikandan\_manikanda](https://community.mosip.io/u/manikandan_manikanda)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2024, 2:14pm UTC](https://community.mosip.io/t/mosip-language-translate-issue/1028/4 "2024-02-15T14:14:50Z")

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@mayuradesh could we use any other translation libraries?

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**Author:** ![mayuradesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e19adc/32.png) [@mayuradesh](https://community.mosip.io/u/mayuradesh)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2024, 10:36am UTC](https://community.mosip.io/t/mosip-language-translate-issue/1028/5 "2024-02-16T10:36:02Z")

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Currently kernel-transliteration-icu4j is providing the transliteration.  
Code for the same is available here:

> <https://github.com/mosip/commons/tree/release-1.2.0.1/kernel/kernel-transliteration-icu4j>
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> //github.com/mosip/commons/tree/release-1.2.0.1/kernel/kernel-transliteration-icu4j