[Resolved] updated Contact Form 7 Multilingual plugin

Yes, everything worked fine. It was an old form that had been translated by ATE a long time ago. I had to make a change to it. Before I did that, I updated the plugin. As I suspect, the updated plugin just doesn't know about the Acceptance checkbox, somehow the information about it got lost in the update. This is a very specific checkbox because it can contain a link. Accordingly, inside the form tags (of which this checkbox has two - opening and closing, although a normal checkbox has one) there is a link with all its attributes, as well as additional text. What I see in ATE is that ATE sees the closing bracket of the first tag and the opening bracket of the second tag as separate strings for translation (consisting of one character each), i.e. it thinks that the form tag should be one, like a normal checkbox. It doesn't display the link correctly at all (it treats it as plain text because it probably thinks that there can't be a link inside a checkbox - and for a regular checkbox this is indeed the case), it adds quotes to it (which are of course in the tag, but which shouldn't be translated along with the href), but in this form the link can't be translated correctly. ATE registers each word within this tag separately. Well, it is obvious that it does not understand how to work with this tag, it does not recognise it and cannot process it correctly. If you try to translate everything through ATE (i.e. actually adding the correct link in the target language with quotation marks, as seen in the original), the frontend is a complete mess. I think this can all be easily seen in the sandbox on any simple tag of this type.

Yeah, that's pretty much what I see. This workaround won't work for me because I've already tried to translate the strings that ATE required to be translated (such as square brackets and links combined with quotation marks), and I've saved those translations in my translation memory. Besides, the ATE wouldn't let me finish the translation without translating those parts anyway (like, again, incorrect links). So I just corrected the translation in the WP editor. The other thing is that if I make changes to the form, I have to make those edits manually every time, but I only have one form with the Accept checkboxes, so it's not a big deal. I hope this will be fixed. I also hope that something like this won't happen with the upcoming, as I understand, core system update (it's announced in the description of this plugin's update). I also really hope that the core system update will avoid the need to make changes to already translated texts when the originals are changed (not in part of an actual change to the originals, of course). For example, because of the change in the Contact Form 7 Multilingual plugin, I had to retranslate radio buttons with labels in all forms (I can see why - this is almost the main change in the plugin mentioned). I'm grateful that now I don't lose translations in this part if I change the original form as it used to be. But it's a pity that I had to retranslate already translated forms (because ATE now "sees" these parts of the forms differently). But I don't have that many forms and they are only translated into a few languages, whereas some pages of my website are translated into 38 languages. I reeeally don't want to re-translate them when changes are made to the core system, as is the case with this plugin.

The update fixed everything, thank you!