[Escalated to 2nd Tier] Translations with WooCommerce Subscriptions

I have tried to replicate the issue on a sandbox, but it appears that at the moment, I am not able to test this way using the Google Translation Engine for String Translations.

Yes, if the issue occurs again, please let me know. Until now, it looked like someone actually changed at least a hundred placeholders manually, as I saw random results.

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Hello,

Those are the same kind of errors that are related to wrong translations for PHP placeholders on WPML > String Translation.

Bascially, you still need to go through WPML String Translation and search for PHP placeholders like %s, %1$s, %2$s, and so on, and make sure that those placeholders are identical in all languages.

I have solved one of these errors now.

Could you please provide me with complete details about the errors, in case you still see some on the error.log?

Best regards
Andreas

The string you are looking for begins with "Voordat u PayPa...".

If you go to WPML > String Translation, use the text search field and put "Voordat" and then mark the checkbox for including translations into the search, you should be able to find it.

If you wish me to take a look at your production site, please use the private reply form and provide admin access to the site.

At the moment, I can sadly not find the matching string, but I found one issue:

Subscribers %1$s - %2$s
was translated to
Abonnement %1$ - %2$

Should be:
Abonnement %1$s - %2$s

and

%1$s free trial then %2$s
was translated to
Gratis proefperiode van 1%, daarna 2%

Should be:
Gratis proefperiode van %1$s, daarna %2$s

and

%1$s for %2$s
was translated to
1% voor 2%

Should be:
%1$s voor %2$s

and

%1$s on %2$s %3$s each year
was translated to
%1$ op %2$ %3$ elk jaar

Should be:
%1$s op %2$s %3$s elk jaar

and

Want to know more about Subscriptions %s?
was translated to
Wil je meer weten over abonnementspercentages?

Should be:
Wil je meer weten over abonnements %s?

Plus another dozen issues that I have fixed now manually. To know if there are more errors, I would need to enable the debug mode and try to trigger further errors by navigating the site, as there are hundreds of translated strings on your site that are using such specifiers. I have already verified a few hundred of them.

Bascially, you need to go to WPML > String Translation, search for %1$s and also for %s, and make sure that all strings that are translated use the same placeholders (also called specifiers) on the translated strings.

What is most important for me to know, can you please confirm if those issues were soley caused by manual translation or could this be an issue related to Google Translate?

I ran some test trying to translate strings from a PHP snippet which uses PHP specifiers in different layouts.

I was able to replicate an issue that occurs if the PHP specifier is used as an HTML attribute like for example in:

<a href="%s">Click here to view your profile</a>

This will be translated into

<a href="%S">Klik hier om je profiel te bekijken.</a>

and break the translation if you translate with Google from English to Dutch.

It does not occur if I translate the same string with Google from English to French.

I am escalating this issue internally, so that the respective team can review this issue.