Bugzilla

It would be nice if we could annotate strings somehow to prevent certain pieces of text from being machine translated.

For example: Google Translator translates
`fileSizeProgress = ({ $partialSize } of { $totalSize })`
as
`fileSizeProgress = ({$ partialSize} od {$ totalSize})`
(mind the spacing).

We should prevent certain pieces of text from being changed in the machine translation output in order to prevent translation errors.

For example: Google Translate translates
`fileSizeProgress = ({ $partialSize } of { $totalSize })`
as
`fileSizeProgress = ({$ partialSize} od {$ totalSize})`
(mind the spacing).

Such translations often result in errors, because they mess with the developer variables. Additionally, changes are hard to spot.

We should check if there's a way to annotate substrings that should not be modified in the MT output. Looking at the comments in https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/119256504, we might need to post-process the output instead.