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Google Translate (and this includes Google Website Translator as a subfunction) always displays the language selector in the user's browser language which makes totally sense for a translation feature. Therefore, when I'm visiting your website, the options are displayed in german for example.
A translate feature differentiates from a language selector like ...
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The UX answer is that you use JavaScript to detect the language being used by the browser. You may notice that your link to google ends with "en" indicating English, but even if you change this the language does not change as Google checks your browser language and displays in that, even if you change the parameter. The SO answer is linked in my comment ...
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To state it simply, there is none.
The main difficulty in attempting to identify a set of actions only through icons is that there are very few which most can universally agree upon. It is almost always better to use words, or at the very least, use word/icon pairs.
Here's what I do when I'm curious whether there's a universally identifiable icon or ...
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I see why the word 'Import' can be confusing here, but it must be understood that the usage here is from Google's perspective. I mean to say that the meaning of the word 'import' can vary depending on which side you're looking at it from (exactly like the words left and right, or any other set of dual prepositions).
To clarify: in the case of a desktop ...
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In Google Drive in English, "Import" has a separate meaning: bringing the content from an existing document (such as an Excel Spreadsheet) into a Google document. I don't know why the French version labels upload thusly, but as I'm sure you are aware, language translation is a complicated issue. Words don't map one-to-one between languages, and usage often ...
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French word for upload is télécharger not quite sure why google decided to go with Importer.
"Import is derived from the conceptual meaning as the goods and services into the port of a country" wiki
So the arrow should be pointing towards the object/down
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