Visual diff behaves poorly on pages using Translate extension
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	Esanders
	Dec 17 2020, 7:12 PM

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One option would be to disable the visual diff on these pages.

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Resolved		ihurbain	T270422 Visual diff behaves poorly on pages using Translate extension

Esanders updated the task description. (Show Details)

This has been greatly improved with https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/Translate/+/730189 in 2021. The behavior isn't ideal yet, but it is actually rendering diffs now with minor errors, and not (quoting from Topic:Vypopy90y45cqebz) "showing the entire content on "diff": all red and all green".

(The example given in this task works very poorly, because the typo fix was inside a template, but that's unrelated to the use of Translate.)