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MT translation fails to correctly display template based tables
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  1. Start translating en: Metric prefix to español. The article has two template-based tables: {{common metric prefixes}} and

{{SI prefixes (infobox)}}.

  1. Apertium will fail to translate them and falls back to display the original content which, in fact, will be converted into a table:

{| class="infobox" cellpadding="1" id="4" style="padding:0; text-align:left;"....

Screen Shot 2019-02-04 at 4.22.12 PM.png (717×1 px, 136 KB)

  1. Yandex and Google will not translate these templates either, but the table will displayed broken:

Screen Shot 2019-02-04 at 4.22.41 PM.png (648×1 px, 103 KB)

More examples for en->ja translation:
Screen Shot 2019-02-04 at 4.20.42 PM.png (779×1 px, 148 KB)

Screen Shot 2019-02-04 at 4.21.01 PM.png (598×1 px, 157 KB)

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Etonkovidova created this task.Feb 5 2019, 1:09 AM
Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptFeb 5 2019, 1:09 AM
VulpesVulpes825 mentioned this in T246404: Content Translation failed to translate small size table.Feb 28 2020, 1:16 AM
Pginer-WMF triaged this task as Medium priority.Jul 4 2022, 11:58 AM
Pginer-WMF added a parent task: T191389: CX2: Content type support (tracker).
Pginer-WMF moved this task from Needs Triage to Bugs on the ContentTranslation board.
Nikerabbit renamed this task from MT translation fails to correctly dislplay template based tables to MT translation fails to correctly display template based tables.Jun 26 2025, 2:06 PM
Nikerabbit moved this task from Bugs to Content handling on the ContentTranslation board.
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