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Punctuation mark leaks from Lang-* template when translated with Apertium
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Description

When translating the Kleisoura (Byzantine district) from English to Spanish, the Lang-el template on the first paragraph is adapted when added to the translation (i.e., the equivalent template in Spanish is added with the information). However, an additional ":" character is added after the template in the target language:

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This extra ":" character seems to come from the rendering of the source template. The way a template is rendered should not interfere with the contents, so it is unclear how the ":" leaked from there into the target contents.

This happens with Apertium (and possibly with other plain text MT systems).

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Event Timeline

Pginer-WMF renamed this task from Punctuation mark leaks from template when translated with Apertium to Punctuation mark leaks from Lang-* template when translated with Apertium.Apr 24 2020, 11:26 AM
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Pginer-WMF moved this task from Needs Triage to Bugs on the ContentTranslation board.