Those of you who have experience translating software, how have you seen others handle these issues? Specifically, I’m referring to situations where we might have a source string like a %{fruit} where %{fruit} is a variable that could have a number of values, so if it was “grapefruit” in English, it…

Not the implementation you’re asking for, but I find https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Localization/Localization_content_best_practices a useful overview of things to keep in mind.

Try to avoid inserting tiny fragments into longer text, wherever possible. Try to translate whole sentences and paragraphs as a unit. In cases where it can’t be avoided, try to make the variable contain a whole noun phrase, e.g. use a list of fruits like [‘a grapefruit’, ‘an apple’] and insert the w…

Agree with what Jeremy says - tokenizing and translating single words tends to be difficult because of agreement, or different word ordering. It often makes sense to repeat text rather than overtokenizing to give the translators more flexibility.

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Translating articles for gendered nouns, vowel / consonant rules, etc

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