[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #56435: Alleviate translation workload

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#56435: Alleviate translation workload
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 Reporter:  anrghg       |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  I18N         |     Version:
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  2nd-opinion  |     Focuses:
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Changes (by johnbillion):

 * keywords:   => 2nd-opinion
 * type:  defect (bug) => enhancement


Comment:

 Regarding using two placeholders instead of opening and closing HTML tags:

 * What's the benefit of doing this? It appears to be no more or less easy
 for a translator to understand, it's just different. A translator still
 needs to understand the concept of an opening and closing HTML tag in
 order to produce a correct translation using the placeholders.
 * Ironically making this change will increase the workload for
 translators, as we'll get 150 new strings that need to be translated.
 * I wouldn't be surprised if there are some translations which adjust or
 remove the HTML to improve formatting for a given language, which would no
 longer be possible with these placeholders (without triggering a
 translation error on w.org).

 > Try to use the same words and same symbols so not multiple strings needs
 to be translated

 This is good advice and improvements to reduce the number of similar
 strings has been ongoing for years, see for example
 https://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?component=I18N&summary=~similar .

 It's worth noting that "Password:" and "Password" are not the same string
 and they serve different purposes. Removing the colon to reduce the number
 of translations would result in a less appropriate phrase being shown to
 users, and it's not possible to hardcode the colon outside of the
 translation as this needs to be localisable too.

 If you've got some more examples of specific strings that are similar to
 others, please feel free to open individual tickets for them. Thanks!

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