English strings inserted in translations

[chantalcoolsma]

On translate.wordpress.org there is this string:

https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/gutenberg/dev/nl/default?filters%5Bstatus%5D=either&filters%5Boriginal_id%5D=5746763&filters%5Btranslation_id%5D=54835322

For Dutch this is translated as 'Voeg %s toe'. The %s shows English words. Results in for example:

'Voeg Image toe' or
'Voeg Gallery toe' or
'Voeg Heading toe'

I guess the '%s' strings need to be translatable too.

[Soean]

I can't reproduce it. Seems to be fixed in Gutenberg 2.7. Please reopen if it still exists.

[chantalcoolsma]

@Soean yes, I noticed it has been changed in 2.7. However words like "Kop" (as shown in your example) shouldn't start with a capital. So "Kop" should be "kop" in this case. I noticed those are separate strings to translate, but since they are single words, translators translate them with a capital. I don't know if those strings are used anywhere else. Otherwise we could translate them without capitalisation. I can imagine this can also apply to other languages than Dutch.

Any ideas?

[rianrietveld]

This seems a valid issue, worth to continue the discussion and find a solution for.

[Soean]

@chantalcoolsma Thanks for your feedback. Thats another issue, different from the title and description, so I think it's better if we open a new issue.

[chantalcoolsma]

@Soean I will open a generic localisation issue and reference this issue. Maybe other translators will drop their thoughts too.