Re: Appeal to devs: please be considerate on translator time

Hello, just a note that most Latin-script-writing-system language users
might not aware:

Parentheses/punctuation marks and whitespaces do need to be made
translatable, especially for Simplified/Traditional-Han-writing-system
languages that use full-width parentheses/punctuation marks and don't have
whitespaces between words (the "word separator").

Best regards,
Winston Sung / Sung Chien-chang / Sung Chienchang

On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 at 13:14 (UTC), Strainu <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> But wait, there is more. Strings like " [[{{#special:Contributions
>> }}/$1|$2]] ([[{{ns:user_talk}}:$1|talk]]) " should not exist at all.
>> First, there is absolutely no guidance on what parts should be translated.
>> [1] I would guess only "talk", which should be replaced with reusing the
>> simple message (aka {{int:talk}}), so nothing to translate. This would save
>> the translators the significant amount of time needed to decode the
>> message, make assumptions and (not) translate the text.  I have some
>> more examples, but I'll stop here.
>>
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