Weblate too restrictive in length limit of translated strings
Summary
The translators can't finish the translations (at least German and Italian) because of the char-limit of these strings.
The problem
Steps to reproduce
- Open the translations for these strings.
- Try to copy the original string for plural (English) to the translation field for plural (German), for example for that string: So put
<xliff:g xmlns:xliff="urn:oasis:names:tc:xliff:document:1.2" id="number" example="7">%d</xliff:g> minin the German translation field. We have then 101 chars instead of the 100 allowed.
What is the current behavior?
Weblate doesn't take this translation in account, since it is too long.
What is the expected correct behavior?
Weblate should accept more chars for these strings with the new, longer XML-tags
Relevant screenshots
Technical information
It seems the problem is caused by a Weblate default settings or a bug
From the Weblate documentation, we learn that translated string can't be more than ten times longer than source string.
It appears that for plural here, the source string is singular and is used to calculate the max length.
Solutions
Workaround
If I delete the following words from the XML-tag: example="7", the string is short enough so that Weblate accepts it. But Weblate will always flag that the XML-tags do not accord.
Possible fixes
Allow more chars for the translations.