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Last modified 20 months ago

#3891 new enhancement

Translate: Allow locale-specific rules

Reported by: nao's profile Nao Owned by:
Milestone: Priority: normal
Component: Translate Site & Plugins Keywords:
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Description

When I review translations of others (especially new contributors), I often find myself spending time correcting & telling about the same issues that are against the rules in our style guide.

Here are some examples:

Warning (if these are violated, the translation should never be approved)

  1. Never use multibyte symbols and numbers such as: ,,,,
  2. Use hiragana instead of kanji for "全て" (= all), "下さい" (= please)

Notice (there are some exceptions so the translator needs to confirm that it's not against the rule)

  1. In most cases, try to omit the word "you (あなた)"
  2. Place a single-byte space before & after an alphabetic word/phrase, unless it's right next to one of the following:,,:,(,) etc...

I'm sure there are similar types of (relatively) minor but style-violating mistakes that often come up for each locale. Correcting these are very mind-numbing for editors, but at the same time, it's not very easy for new contributors to understand all these rules in the first place.

I think it's best if GlotPress can automatically handle these kinds of warnings and notices so editors can spend more time on other things.

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