Link are not working with internationalization in Sphinx

[kisvegabor]

Hi,

I'm making some experiments with Sphinx, gettext, and recommonmark.

I've noticed that in the outout pot files the link markups from rst files are present but they disappear from the md files. When I translate a text with a link there won't be links in the output file. However, I'm not sure if it's a recommonmark or Sphinx issue.

Example md file:

To see how you can port LittlevGL to your device go to the [Porting](/porting/index) section.

pot file

msgid "To see how you can port LittlevGL to your device go to the Porting section."
msgstr ""

po file

msgid ""
"To see how you can port LittlevGL to your device go to the Porting "
"section."
msgstr "Some translation... Porting section."

I'd expect to the pot file to look like this:

msgid "To see how you can port LittlevGL to your device go to the  [Porting](/porting/index) section."
msgstr ""

And the po file

msgid ""
"To see how you can port LittlevGL to your device go to the [Porting](/porting/index)  "
"section."
msgstr "Some translation... [Porting](/porting/index) section."

Is there any workaround for this? Or is it a known issue?

[astrojuanlu]

This is unlikely to get fixed in recommonmark: #221

I copy here @JulianGro comments on MyST-Parser from vircadia/vircadia-docs-sphinx#136:

While it does fix links being parsed incorrectly for translation, the new strings will still contain the wrong translation and only be marked as "fuzzy" indicating that the translation needs to be updated.

I'm collecting i18n issues related to Markdown on Sphinx, because it seems a common pain point.

[jpmckinney]

I had fixed this in unmerged #187