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Translations editor for Mac, Windows and Unix
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Wrong warning "translation should start as sentence" #740

Closed rillig closed 2 years ago

rillig commented 2 years ago
msgid "MSP430 built-in"
msgstr "eingebaute MSP430"

In the German version of Poedit, this generates the warning "Die Übersetzung sollte als Satz beginnen.", which should not be shown here. The original message may or may not be a sentence, that is not clear from the text alone. The warning should only be shown if the original message starts with an uppercase letter followed by a lowercase letter.

vslavik commented 2 years ago

The warning should only be shown if the original message starts with an uppercase letter followed by a lowercase letter.

I like this phrasing. It may not be bulletproof (e.g. proper nouns, uppercase-emphasized text), but false negatives are better than false positives. Thanks!