Weblate info message and recurrent regressions in translations

[jumase]

Hi, I wonder if the message displayed at Weblate related to the HTML elements is still valid.

Hi translators. Please be careful with strings that contain HTML elements (e.g,. <b>).
Android requires that the leading < be "escaped" by writing it as an entity, < (&, lt, and ;, all together).
Unfortunately you can't copy these from the source string, as Weblate copies the wrong thing

It's been about 2 or 3 months that (my) translations get reverted once and again, so it's really confusing. Let's take for example this string. The other times it was webhook:github the account that changed them (if I recall correctly, history must be at least one more regression, not shown there), but now it's nikclayton. So I couldn't tell for sure if this was automatic or intentional.

I usually check the source string to know if the original is < or <. That way I choose one of those formats. I've read that WeblateOrg/weblate#11995 has got some progress, but I understand that it's not fixed yet.

So do we need to verify which symbols are used or is it not necessary any more? I also remember that there was some kind of automatic check for these situations, so I'm not sure how to proceed from now on.

Another particular string is this one. What should we do with that one? I can't find it on strings.xml

Thanks in advance

[nikclayton]

Thanks for checking.

The message is still valid, the Weblate UI still makes things confusing and easy to do the wrong thing.

I talked about this with Aindriú (working on the Gaelic translations) the other day in #2191, there's more detail there.

At the time I'm writing this the most recent PR from Weblate also has this problem: #2202. In the diff view in the PR you can see the translator has changed the < and > back to < and > which I will need to fix.

Another particular string is this one. What should we do with that one? I can't find it on strings.xml

The Pachli code is split in to different modules (makes managing the code easier, speeds up compilation because unchanged modules don't need to be recompiled, etc).

The different modules are shown in the Weblate UI, for example, in the "breadcrumb" navigation trail. For example:

• https://hosted.weblate.org/translate/pachli/app-main/es/?checksum=71f62291c1096619 shows "Pachli / App : Main / Spanish / Translate", "App : Main" is the module name (in Weblate).
• https://hosted.weblate.org/translate/pachli/coreui-main/es/?checksum=dca17aa2b3ce6a8f (your example) shows "Pachli / Core/UI : Main / Spanish / Translate" is the module name (in Weblate).

"App : Main" corresponds to app/src/main in the code: https://github.com/pachli/pachli-android/tree/main/app/src/main
"Core/UI : Main" corresponds to core/ui/src/main in the code: https://github.com/pachli/pachli-android/tree/main/core/ui/src/main

I might be able to make those names clearer in the Weblate UI, I'll look at that now.

[jumase]

Hi Nik, thanks for the detailed explanation. So I need to keep ignoring the regressions. I didn't know it was going to be that way, simply thought it was once and all done.

In the diff view in the PR you can see the translator has changed the `&lt;` and `&gt;` back to `<` and `>` which I will need to fix.

I see, so the green part is what the translator has done, not what it's correct. I misunderstood that part, it's just the difference.

"App : Main" corresponds to `app/src/main` in the code: https://github.com/pachli/pachli-android/tree/main/app/src/main "Core/UI : Main" corresponds to `core/ui/src/main` in the code: https://github.com/pachli/pachli-android/tree/main/core/ui/src/main

Oh, I see! I did know that there were different modules, but I thought it was just for Weblate. I wrongly assumed that all strigns were in the same file, especially due to them having the same name and ending (/src/main/res/values/strings.xml). I should have checked the higher levels. Now I see that the path to the source is shown in the Weblate interface, and that string number do not match the line number of the strings.xml file (I can tell why).

I might be able to make those names clearer in the Weblate UI, I'll look at that now.

I think it's not necessary, they are quite clear for me. It's just that the source paths are a bit confusing and long, but I got it now. Thank you very much!