Placeholder validation - optional placeholders

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Overview

Some placeholders are optional by default upon uploading onto our platform to:

  • Preserve flexibility
  • Allow warning notifications to translators that they might need to use the placeholder/placeholders are typed incorrectly

List of optional placeholders

Here is the list of placeholders that are set to optional by default:

  1. Message format - single layer of MessageFormat pattern
  2. HTML formatting tags - e.g. <strong></strong>, <br/>
    • <b> Bold
    • <strong> Important
    • <i> Italic
    • <em> Emphasized
    • <mark> Marked
    • <small> Small
    • <del> Deleted
    • <ins> Inserted
    • <sub> Subscript
    • <sup> Superscript
  3. HTML entities (e.g. &#012;, &#8217;)
  4. Placeholders (%d and %s) in plural strings (see below)

OneSky only supports the exact match of placeholders but does not support translatable pattern matching. Identified translatable patterns are treated as optional placeholders to preserve functionalities of click to copy while allowing the content to change.

Plural string placeholders

Placeholders in plural strings are automatically set as optional because the required placeholder functionality is too strict for plural strings. Let's take the following plural string as an example:

one: %d book

other: %d books

If %d was required, the plural form "one" can only be translated to "1 livre" in French. This will restrict translations if the translator preferred "a book", or "un livre" in French.

OneSky also will not check placeholders by the plural form due to the following reasons:

  1. The plural forms of the same name, say "one", are defined differently across different languages.
  2. Plural forms do not exist in all languages, and for some such as from Chinese to English or English to Russian, there will be no plural form to reference from.

 

 

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    YolandaRosa (Edited )

    This is really post i must say

    1. Define Placeholder Rules:

      • Clearly define the rules for placeholders, including which placeholders are mandatory and which are optional. This should be documented in your system's requirements or specifications.

    2. Regular Expressions or Patterns:

      • Use regular expressions or predefined patterns to validate placeholders. Regular expressions can be configured to match both mandatory and optional placeholders based on your defined rules.

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    Eddie Nelson

    Thank you for the detailed overview regarding optional placeholders. I appreciate the explanation of how placeholders preserve flexibility and assist translators. The information about handling plural string placeholders and HTML formatting tags is particularly helpful.

    Thanks,

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    Dave Shepherd (Edited )

    Your comprehensive summary of the topic of optional placeholders is really appreciated. The description of how placeholders help translators and maintain flexibility is quite helpful. I found the section on HTML formatting tags and plural string placeholders to be quite useful.

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    Vanila (Edited )

    Hello,

    Flexibility: Allows for variations in translation without strict placeholder matching.
    Translator Awareness: Provides warnings to translators about potentially missing or incorrect placeholders.
    Click-to-Copy Functionality: Preserves the ability to copy text even with translatable patterns.

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    Ali Raza

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    OneSky also will not check placeholders by the plural form due to the following reasons:

    1. The plural forms of the same name, say "one", are defined differently across different languages.
    2. Plural forms do not exist in all languages, and for some such as from Chinese to English or English to Russian, there will be no plural form to reference from.
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