Checks and fixups

The quality checks help catch common translator errors, ensuring the translation is in good shape. The checks can be ignored in case of false positives.

Once submitting a translation with a failing check, this is immediately shown to the user:

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Automatic fixups

In addition to Quality checks, Weblate can fix some common errors in translated strings automatically. Use it with caution to not have it add errors.

Ayrıca bakınız

AUTOFIX_LIST

Quality checks

Weblate employs a wide range of quality checks on strings. The following section describes them all in further detail. There are also language specific checks. Please file a bug if anything is reported in error.

Translation checks

Executed upon every translation change, helping translators maintain good quality translations.

BBcode işaretlemesi

BBcode in translation does not match source

BBCode represents simple markup, like for example highlighting important parts of a message in bold font, or italics.

This check ensures they are also found in translation.

Not

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

Art arda yinelenen sözcükler

Text contains the same word twice in a row:

4.1 sürümünde geldi.

Checks that no consecutive duplicate words occur in a translation. This usually indicates a mistake in the translation.

İpucu

This check includes language specific rules to avoid false positives. In case it triggers falsely in your case, let us know. See Reporting issues in Weblate.

Sözlüğü takip etme

4.5 sürümünde geldi.

Çeviri, bir sözlükte tanımlanan terimleri takip etmiyor.

This check has to be turned on using check-glossary flag (see Customizing behavior using flags). Please consider following prior to enabling it:

  • It does exact string matching, the glossary is expected to contain terms in all variants.

  • Checking each string against glossary is expensive, it will slow down any operation in Weblate which involves running checks like importing strings or translating.

Çift boşluk

Translation contains double space

Checks that double space is present in translation to avoid false positives on other space-related checks.

Check is false when double space is found in source meaning double space is intentional.

Formatted strings

Checks that formatting in strings are replicated between both source and translation. Omitting format strings in translation usually causes severe problems, so the formatting in strings should usually match the source.

Weblate supports checking format strings in several languages. The check is not enabled automatically, only if a string is flagged appropriately (e.g. c-format for C format). Gettext adds this automatically, but you will probably have to add it manually for other file formats or if your PO files are not generated by xgettext.

This can be done per unit (see Additional info on source strings) or in Component configuration. Having it defined per component is simpler, but can lead to false positives in case the string is not interpreted as a formatting string, but format string syntax happens to be used.

İpucu

In case specific format check is not available in Weblate, you can use generic Yer tutucular.

Besides checking, this will also highlight the formatting strings to easily insert them into translated strings:

../_images/format-highlight.png

AngularJS ilişkilendirme dizgisi

AngularJS interpolation strings do not match source

Named format string

Your balance is {{amount}} {{ currency }}

Flag to enable

angularjs-format

C biçimi

C format string does not match source

Simple format string

There are %d apples

Position format string

Your balance is %1$d %2$s

Flag to enable

c-format

C# biçimi

C# format string does not match source

Position format string

There are {0} apples

Flag to enable

c-sharp-format

Ayrıca bakınız

Formatted strings, C# String Format

ECMAScript şablon değişmezleri

ECMAScript şablon değişmezleri kaynakla eşleşmiyor

Interpolation

There are ${number} apples

Flag to enable

es-format

i18next ilişkilendirmesi

The i18next interpolation does not match source

4.0 sürümünde geldi.

Interpolation

There are {{number}} apples

Nesting

There are $t(number) apples

Flag to enable

i18next-interpolation

Java biçimi

Java format string does not match source

Simple format string

There are %d apples

Position format string

Your balance is %1$d %2$s

Flag to enable

java-format

Java MessageFormat

Java MessageFormat string does not match source

Position format string

There are {0} apples

Flag to enable

java-messageformat enables the check unconditionally

auto-java-messageformat enables check only if there is a format string in the source

JavaScript biçimi

JavaScript format string does not match source

Simple format string

There are %d apples

Flag to enable

javascript-format

Lua biçimi

Lua biçimindeki dizgi kaynakla eşleşmiyor

Simple format string

There are %d apples

Flag to enable

lua-format

Object Pascal biçimi

Object Pascal format string does not match source

Simple format string

There are %d apples

Flag to enable

object-pascal-format

Yüzde yer tutucuları

The percent placeholders do not match source

4.0 sürümünde geldi.

Simple format string

There are %number% apples

Flag to enable

percent-placeholders

Ayrıca bakınız

Formatted strings,

Perl biçimi

Perl format string does not match source

Simple format string

There are %d apples

Position format string

Your balance is %1$d %2$s

Flag to enable

perl-format

PHP biçimi

PHP format string does not match source

Simple format string

There are %d apples

Position format string

Your balance is %1$d %2$s

Flag to enable

php-format

Python ayracı biçimi

Python brace format string does not match source

Simple format string

There are {} apples

Named format string

Your balance is {amount} {currency}

Flag to enable

python-brace-format

Python biçimi

Python format string does not match source

Simple format string

There are %d apples

Named format string

Your balance is %(amount) %(currency)

Flag to enable

python-format

Qt biçimi

Qt format string does not match source

Position format string

There are %1 apples

Flag to enable

qt-format

Qt çoğul biçimi

Qt plural format string does not match source

Plural format string

There are %Ln apple(s)

Flag to enable

qt-plural-format

Ayrıca bakınız

Formatted strings, Qt i18n guide

Ruby biçimi

Ruby format string does not match source

Simple format string

There are %d apples

Position format string

Your balance is %1$f %2$s

Named format string

Your balance is %+.2<amount>f %<currency>s

Named template string

Your balance is %{amount} %{currency}

Flag to enable

ruby-format

Şema biçimi

Scheme format string does not match source

Simple format string

There are ~d apples

Flag to enable

scheme-format

Vue I18n biçimlendirmesi

Vue I18n biçimlendirmesi kaynakla eşleşmiyor

Adlandırılmış biçimlendirme

There are {count} apples

Rails i18n biçimlendirmesi

There are %{count} apples

Bağlantılı yerel iletiler

@:message.dio @:message.the_world!

Flag to enable

vue-format

Çevrilmiş

This string has been translated in the past

Means a string has been translated already. This can happen when the translations have been reverted in VCS or lost otherwise.

Tutarsız

This string has more than one translation in this project or is not translated in some components.

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

The check fails on differing translations of one string within a project. This can also lead to inconsistencies in displayed checks. You can find other translations of this string on the Other occurrences tab.

Not

This check also fires in case the string is translated in one component and not in another. It can be used as a quick way to manually handle strings which are not translated in some components just by clicking on the Use this translation button displayed on each line in the Other occurrences tab.

You can use Kendiliğinden çeviri addon to automate translating of newly added strings which are already translated in another component.

Kashida harfi kullanıldı

The decorative kashida letters should not be used

3.5 sürümünde geldi.

The decorative Kashida letters should not be used in translation. These are also known as Tatweel.

Ayrıca bakınız

Kashida on Wikipedia

Markdown başvuruları

Markdown link references do not match source

3.5 sürümünde geldi.

Markdown link references do not match source.

Ayrıca bakınız

Markdown links

Markdown sözdizimi

Markdown syntax does not match source

3.5 sürümünde geldi.

Markdown sözdizimi kaynakla eşleşmiyor

Ayrıca bakınız

Markdown span elements

Çevirinin en çok uzunluğu

Translation should not exceed given length

Checks that translations are of acceptable length to fit available space. This only checks for the length of translation characters.

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

İpucu

This check looks at number of chars, what might not be the best metric when using proportional fonts to render the text. The Çeviri maksimum boyutu check does check actual rendering of the text.

The replacements: flag might be also useful to expand placeables before checking the string.

Çeviri maksimum boyutu

Translation rendered text should not exceed given size

3.7 sürümünde geldi.

Translation rendered text should not exceed given size. It renders the text with line wrapping and checks if it fits into given boundaries.

This check needs one or two parameters - maximal width and maximal number of lines. In case the number of lines is not provided, one line text is considered.

You can also configure used font by font-* directives (see Customizing behavior using flags), for example following translation flags say that the text rendered with ubuntu font size 22 should fit into two lines and 500 pixels:

max-size:500:2, font-family:ubuntu, font-size:22

İpucu

You might want to set font-* directives in Component configuration to have the same font configured for all strings within a component. You can override those values per string in case you need to customize it per string.

The replacements: flag might be also useful to expand placeables before checking the string.

\n uyuşmadı

Çevirideki \n sayısı kaynakla eşleşmiyor

Usually escaped newlines are important for formatting program output. Check fails if the number of \n literals in translation do not match the source.

İki nokta üst üste uyuşmadı

Source and translation do not both end with a colon

Checks that colons are replicated between both source and translation. The presence of colons is also checked for various languages where they do not belong (Chinese or Japanese).

Ayrıca bakınız

Colon on Wikipedia

Üç nokta uyuşmadı

Source and translation do not both end with an ellipsis

Checks that trailing ellipses are replicated between both source and translation. This only checks for real ellipsis () not for three dots (...).

An ellipsis is usually rendered nicer than three dots in print, and sounds better with text-to-speech.

Ayrıca bakınız

Ellipsis on Wikipedia

Ünlem işareti uyuşmadı

Source and translation do not both end with an exclamation mark

Checks that exclamations are replicated between both source and translation. The presence of exclamation marks is also checked for various languages where they do not belong (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Armenian, Limbu, Myanmar or Nko).

Ayrıca bakınız

Exclamation mark on Wikipedia

Nokta işareti uyuşmadı

Source and translation do not both end with a full stop

Checks that full stops are replicated between both source and translation. The presence of full stops is checked for various languages where they do not belong (Chinese, Japanese, Devanagari or Urdu).

Ayrıca bakınız

Full stop on Wikipedia

Soru işareti uyuşmadı

Kaynak ve çeviri bir soru işareti ile bitmiyor

Checks that question marks are replicated between both source and translation. The presence of question marks is also checked for various languages where they do not belong (Armenian, Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Ethiopic, Vai or Coptic).

Ayrıca bakınız

Question mark on Wikipedia

Noktalı virgül uyuşmadı

Source and translation do not both end with a semicolon

Checks that semicolons at the end of sentences are replicated between both source and translation. This can be useful to keep formatting of entries such as desktop files.

Ayrıca bakınız

Semicolon on Wikipedia

Uyuşmayan satır sonları

Number of new lines in translation does not match source

Usually newlines are important for formatting program output. Check fails if the number of \n literals in translation do not match the source.

Eksik çoğul

Some plural forms are not translated

Checks that all plural forms of a source string have been translated. Specifics on how each plural form is used can be found in the string definition.

Failing to fill in plural forms will in some cases lead to displaying nothing when the plural form is in use.

Yer tutucular

Translation is missing some placeholders:

3.9 sürümünde geldi.

4.3 sürümünde değişti: Düzenli ifadeyi yer tutucu olarak kullanabilirsiniz.

Translation is missing some placeholders. These are either extracted from the translation file or defined manually using placeholders flag, more can be separated with colon, strings with space can be quoted:

placeholders:$URL$:$TARGET$:"some long text"

In case you have some syntax for placeholders, you can use a regular expression:

placeholders:r"%[^% ]%"

Noktalama aralığı

Missing non breakable space before double punctuation sign

3.9 sürümünde geldi.

Checks that there is non breakable space before double punctuation sign (exclamation mark, question mark, semicolon and colon). This rule is used only in a few selected languages like French or Breton, where space before double punctuation sign is a typographic rule.

Düzenli ifade

Translation does not match regular expression:

3.9 sürümünde geldi.

Translation does not match regular expression. The expression is either extracted from the translation file or defined manually using regex flag:

regex:^foo|bar$

Aynı çoğullar

Some plural forms are translated in the same way

Check that fails if some plural forms are duplicated in the translation. In most languages they have to be different.

Baştaki yeni satır

Source and translation do not both start with a newline

Newlines usually appear in source strings for good reason, omissions or additions can lead to formatting problems when the translated text is put to use.

Ayrıca bakınız

Sondaki yeni satır

Baştaki boşluk

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

A space in the beginning of a string is usually used for indentation in the interface and thus important to keep.

Sondaki yeni satır

Source and translation do not both end with a newline

Newlines usually appear in source strings for good reason, omissions or additions can lead to formatting problems when the translated text is put to use.

Ayrıca bakınız

Baştaki yeni satır

Sondaki boşluk

Source and translation do not both end with a space

Checks that trailing spaces are replicated between both source and translation.

Trailing space is usually utilized to space out neighbouring elements, so removing it might break layout.

Değiştirilmemiş çeviri

Source and translation are identical

Happens if the source and corresponding translation strings is identical, down to at least one of the plural forms. Some strings commonly found across all languages are ignored, and various markup is stripped. This reduces the number of false positives.

This check can help find strings mistakenly untranslated.

The default behavior of this check is to exclude words from the built-in blacklist from the checking. These are words which are frequently not being translated. This is useful to avoid false positives on short strings, which consist only of single word which is same in several languages. This blacklist can be disabled by adding strict-same flag to string or component.

Güvenli olmayan HTML

The translation uses unsafe HTML markup

3.9 sürümünde geldi.

The translation uses unsafe HTML markup. This check has to be enabled using safe-html flag (see Customizing behavior using flags). There is also accompanied autofixer which can automatically sanitize the markup.

Ayrıca bakınız

The HTML check is performed by the Bleach library developed by Mozilla.

URL

The translation does not contain an URL

3.5 sürümünde geldi.

The translation does not contain an URL. This is triggered only in case the unit is marked as containing URL. In that case the translation has to be a valid URL.

XML işaretlemesi

XML tags in translation do not match source

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

Checks that XML tags are replicated between both source and translation.

XML sözdizimi

The translation is not valid XML

2.8 sürümünde geldi.

The XML markup is not valid.

Sıfır genişlikli boşluk

Translation contains extra zero-width space character

Zero-width space (<U+200B>) characters are used to break messages within words (word wrapping).

As they are usually inserted by mistake, this check is triggered once they are present in translation. Some programs might have problems when this character is used.

Ayrıca bakınız

Zero width space on Wikipedia

Source checks

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

Üç nokta

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

This fails when the string uses three dots (...) when it should use an ellipsis character ().

Using the Unicode character is in most cases the better approach and looks better rendered, and may sound better with text-to-speech.

Ayrıca bakınız

Ellipsis on Wikipedia

Uzun süre çevrilmeyen

The string has not been translated for a long time

4.1 sürümünde geldi.

When the string has not been translated for a long time, it is can indicate problem in a source string making it hard to translate.

Birden çok kusur denetimi

The translations in several languages have failing checks

Numerous translations of this string have failing quality checks. This is usually an indication that something could be done to improve the source string.

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

Birden çok adsız değişken

There are multiple unnamed variables in the string, making it impossible for translators to reorder them

4.1 sürümünde geldi.

There are multiple unnamed variables in the string, making it impossible for translators to reorder them.

Consider using named variables instead to allow translators to reorder them.

Çoğulsuz

The string is used as plural, but not using plural forms

The string is used as a plural, but does not use plural forms. In case your translation system supports this, you should use the 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