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How to handle the placeholders in the text when translating with DeepL?
Thread poster: chcw
chcw
chcw
Hong Kong
Sep 5, 2023

Hi,

I use DeepL translator to translate the following text from English to Czetch:

"File to be repaired: '%s'; File size: %I64u bytes"

The result is:

"Soubor k opravě: Velikost souboru: %I64u bajtů"

As you can see, '%s' completely disappears in the translated text. How to prevent this?
 
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placeholders Feb 2

I took the liberty of pasting your string and translating it into Polish and this is what I got:

Plik do naprawy: '%s'; Rozmiar pliku: %I64u bajtów

When I change the target language to Czech (and Slovak for good measure), the placeholders are lost. They are not lost on translation to other languages, including non-Roman alphabet languages.
(but they are lost on translation into Greek).

So go figure. I would maybe write to their support and ask what t... See more
I took the liberty of pasting your string and translating it into Polish and this is what I got:

Plik do naprawy: '%s'; Rozmiar pliku: %I64u bajtów

When I change the target language to Czech (and Slovak for good measure), the placeholders are lost. They are not lost on translation to other languages, including non-Roman alphabet languages.
(but they are lost on translation into Greek).

So go figure. I would maybe write to their support and ask what they think.

Other than that, both the web interface and the app lose all formatting when you paste text to be translated - formatting needs to be restored in the target text manually.

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