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Problem:
The client was experiencing issues with automatic translation breaking sentences in Elementor and had a previous ticket closed due to not responding in time.

Solution:
We recommended the client to:
1) Update Elementor plugins to the latest version.
2) Increase the WP Memory Limit to 256 MB, as per our minimum requirements.
3) Increase the MaxInputVars in PHP settings to 10000, and provided a guide on how to do this which can be found here.

Additionally, our ATE Development Team was already addressing the issue, and we were following up with them for a resolution. We asked the client to update the original content, save it, and apply the translation again to see if the issue persists.

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Last updated by Andreas W. 7 months, 2 weeks ago.

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May 2, 2024 at 3:23 pm

nadavP-4

Hello,

I created a ticket that closed already cause I missed the time to reply to him:

https://wpml.org/forums/topic/automatic-translation-breaking-sentences/

May 2, 2024 at 3:33 pm
May 2, 2024 at 5:46 pm #15588708

Andreas W.
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Languages: English (English ) Spanish (Español ) German (Deutsch )

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Hello,

This issue has already been addressed to the ATE Development Team and should be solved shortly.

I am following up with the team and will contact you once I receive their feedback.

Best regards
Andreas

May 2, 2024 at 6:49 pm #15588860

Andreas W.
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I ran a quick test with a normal text block and with a custom HTML block but I can not longer confirm the issue.

Can you still replicate the issue, if you update the original content, save the content and apply the translation again?

May 2, 2024 at 9:02 pm #15589172

nadavP-4

I'm not looking for manual editing solution, i’m using the automatic translation feature and I would like to make sure it doesn't happen while using automatic translation, cause it will take a lot of time to update it manually on all languages and posts we have..

If you want to reproduce the issue, you can test it with the automatic translation feature.

May 2, 2024 at 9:57 pm #15589235

Andreas W.
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Can you please make an edit to the original content, then save the content and wait for the translation to complete again?

Does this solve the issue?

May 3, 2024 at 5:48 am #15589514

nadavP-4

I tried it now, it doesn't change anything.

by the way, feel free to test those things on the site, it is a staging version, you can do whatever you want for trying to fix it, as it is not the live site.

Thank you!

May 3, 2024 at 4:59 pm #15592383

Andreas W.
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Timezone: America/Lima (GMT-05:00)

Sure, I will take a look!

You mentioned this example in the original ticket:
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I gave it a small edit and saved the original content. Then I applied the German translation manually, as automatic translation is not enabled on this Staging Site.

When comparing the English original and the German translation I can not spot an issue, apart from the fact that this translation was only completed to 94% and I needed to complete it.

Could you please name me an exact example?

Take note, that we used to have an issue with link tags that includes additional styling tags causing a line break, but this was solved already but older translation need to get updated to solve the issue.

The only issue I was able to spot was that your "Read time" shortcode seems not to work in the second language.

May 5, 2024 at 7:39 am #15594025

nadavP-4

The "read time" shortcode is not related to it, you can ignore it.

I'm using only automatic translation, so you might try it with the automatic translation.

Previous support agent on the previous ticket said that it might related to ACF plugin we used in the posts maybe? but we are not using it in the content, only to customize the side popup we have on blog posts.

May 7, 2024 at 7:06 am #15600081

nadavP-4

there is an update about it please?

May 7, 2024 at 3:55 pm #15603084

Andreas W.
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Languages: English (English ) Spanish (Español ) German (Deutsch )

Timezone: America/Lima (GMT-05:00)

My apologies for the delay in answering, as I am not working on Sundays and Mondays.

I added a few credits for testing to the staging and created a post with a link that has italic and bold font style.

As you can see in this draft post, the translation was successful:
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This issue was solved already, but you might need to update old translations that were affected by this issue.

May 7, 2024 at 4:33 pm #15603239

nadavP-4

I think is not enough to test it on the way you did.

for better testing you try to reproduce same scenario as I had, use a paragraph with 50-70 words, add 2 URL anchors in the the text, and use the automatica translation.

I'm insist to try it cause I just used the automatic translation 1 week ago and still had this bug.
when the fix for this bug has been released?

May 7, 2024 at 4:44 pm #15603250

Andreas W.
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Please take note that I personally recreated this issue earlier and escalated it and the amount of content does not matter. You were able to recreate this with a simple link back then and it has been solved for 1-2 weeks.

Could you please use my test post and add test content, then let me know how many credits you need for testing? Please keep it between 50-70 credits, as those credits are not free to use for us.

Take note that with DeepL or Google, each word counts two credits. If you use Microsoft it is 1 credit.

Further, it would be important to know, if the issue may occur only in some languages or when using one specific translation engine.

May 7, 2024 at 5:04 pm #15603294

nadavP-4

I created this page: hidden link
there are 30-35 words, need to test the automatic translation for it with Spanish.

May 7, 2024 at 5:24 pm #15603383

Andreas W.
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Languages: English (English ) Spanish (Español ) German (Deutsch )

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I have added 72 credits for running this test. Please let me know the results.