1382348 - [FTL] Mark placeables in FTL strings

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Webtools Graveyard :: Pontoon, defect, P2)

Description

[Michal Stanke (Mozilla.cz) [:mstanke][:MikkCZ]]

I have started translating the new Firefox Screenshots server.ftl file and noticed, that Pontoon does not allow me to insert placeholders or … just by clicking it in the original strings. See https://pontoon.mozilla.org/cs/firefox-screenshots/server.ftl/?string=168594 and https://pontoon.mozilla.org/cs/firefox-screenshots/server.ftl/?string=168509

Comment 1

[GitHub Bugzilla PR Linker]

Attachment: Link to GitHub pull-request: https://github.com/mozilla/pontoon/pull/782

Comment 2

[[github robot]]

Commit pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/pontoon

https://github.com/mozilla/pontoon/commit/165070138259cf54bf133c207e711d2eefd86460
Fix bug 1382348: Mark placeables in FTL strings (#782)

Only references to other Messages and External Arguments are detected
as placeables, since FTL gives us this information and we're confident
when to mark them.

The Translate Toolkit placeables logic we use for other formats is not
usable here for various reasons:
* it's written in python and we build the UI in JS
* it yields more false positives since FTL messages contain more makup

It also has other drawbacks, so we should look into replacing it. See
bugs 1251186, 1368602.