Checks and fixups

Automatic fixups

In addition to Quality checks, Weblate can also automatically fix some common errors in translated strings. This can be quite powerful feature to prevent common mistakes in translations, however use it with caution as it can cause silent corruption as well.

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AUTOFIX_LIST

Quality checks

Weblate does wide range of quality checks on messages. The following section describes them in more detail. The checks take account also special rules for different languages, so if you think the result is wrong, please report a bug.

Translation checks

These are executed on every translation change and help translators to keep good quality of translations.

Unchanged translation

The source and translated strings are the same at least in one of the plural forms. This check ignores some strings which are quite usually same in all languages and strips various markup, which can occur in the string, to reduce number of false positives.

This check can help finding strings which were mistakenly not translated .

Starting or trailing newline

Source and translated do not both start (or end) with a newline.

Newlines usually appear in source string for a good reason, so omitting or adding it can lead to formatting problems when the translated text is used in the application.

Starting spaces

Source and translation do not both start with same number of spaces.

Space in beginning is usually used for indentation in the interface and thus is important to keep.

Trailing space

Source and translated do not both end with a space.

Trailing space is usually used to give space between neighbouring elements, so removing it might break application layout.

Trailing stop

Source and translated do not both end with a full stop. Full stop is also checked in various language variants (Chinese, Japanese, Devanagari or Urdu).

Whet the original string is a sentence, the translated one should be sentence as well to be consistent within the translated content.

Trailing colon

Source and translated do not both end with a colon or the colon is not correctly spaced. This includes spacing rules for languages like French or Breton. Colon is also checked in various language variants (Chinese or Japanese).

Colon is part of a label and should be kept to provide consistent translation. Weblate also checks for various typographic conventions for colon, for example in some languages it should be preceded with space.

Trailing question

Source and translated do not both end with a question mark or it is not correctly spaced. This includes spacing rules for languages like French or Breton. Question mark is also checked in various language variants (Armenian, Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Ethiopic, Vai or Coptic).

Question mark indicates question and this semantics should be kept in translated string as well. Weblate also checks for various typographic conventions for question mark, for example in some languages it should be preceded with space.

Trailing exclamation

Source and translated do not both end with an exclamation mark or it is not correctly spaced. This includes spacing rules for languages like French or Breton. Exclamation mark is also checked in various language variants (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Armenian, Limbu, Myanmar or Nko).

Exclamation mark indicates some important statement and this semantics should be kept in translated string as well. Weblate also checks for various typographic conventions for exclamation mark, for example in some languages it should be preceded with space.

Trailing ellipsis

Source and translation do not both end with an ellipsis. This only checks for real ellipsis () not for three dots (...).

Ellipsis is usually rendered nicer than three dots, so it’s good to keep it when the original string was using that as well.

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Ellipsis on wikipedia

Maximum Length

Translation is too long to accept. This only checks for the length of translation characters.

Source and translation usually do not have same amount of characters, but if translation is too long, it can be affect a rendered shape. For example, in some UI widget, it should be kept in a specific length of characters in order to show complete translation within limited space.

Unlike the other checks, the flag should be set as a key:value pair like max-length:100.

Format strings

Format string does not match source. Weblate supports following formats:

  • Python format
  • Python brace format
  • PHP format
  • C format
  • Javascript format
  • AngularJS interpolation string

Omitting format string from translation usually cause severe problems, so you should really keep the format string matching the original one.

Missing plurals

Some plural forms are not translated. Check plural form definition to see for which counts each plural form is being used.

Not filling in some plural forms will lead to showing no text in the application in case this plural would be displayed.

Inconsistent

More different translations of one string in a project. This can also lead to inconsistencies in displayed checks. You can find other translations of this string on All locations tab.

Weblate checks translations of the same string across all translation within a project to help you keep consistent translations.

Mismatched \n

Number of \n in translation does not match source.

Usually escaped newlines are important for formatting program output, so this should match to source.

Mismatched BBcode

BBcode in translation does not match source.

This code is used as a simple markup to highlight important parts of a message, so it is usually a good idea to keep them.

Nota

The method for detecting BBcode is currently quite simple so this check might produce false positives.

Zero-width space

Translation contains extra zero-width space (<U+200B>) character.

This character is usually inserted by mistake, though it might have legitimate use. Some programs might have problems when this character is used.

Invalid XML markup

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The XML markup is invalid.

XML tags mismatch

XML tags in translation do not match source.

This usually means resulting output will look different. In most cases this is not desired result from translation, but occasionally it is desired.

Source checks

Source checks can help developers to improve quality of source strings.

Optional plural

The string is optionally used as plural, but not using plural forms. In case your translation system supports this, you should use plural aware variant of it.

For example with Gettext in Python it could be:

from gettext import ngettext

print ngettext('Selected %d file', 'Selected %d files', files) % files

Ellipsis

The string uses three dots (...) instead of an ellipsis character ().

Using Unicode character is in most cases better approach and looks better when rendered.

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Ellipsis on wikipedia

Multiple failing checks

More translations of this string have some failed quality checks. This is usually indication that something could be done about improving the source string.

This check can be quite often caused by missing full stop at the end of sentence or similar minor issues which translators tend to fix in translations, while it would be better to fix it in a source string.