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Evaluating repetitions

The duplicate segment checking process in WorldServer is mostly straightforward. If one segment is an exact match of another segment, it is considered a repetition segment. For instance, the following segments are considered duplicates of each other:
{34}Progress Report{35}
{1}Progress Report{2}

The segments have exactly the same type, discarding the difference in the placeholder index. More correctly, the normalized forms of these segments are identical. The normalized form compares them after the placeholder index is converted.

The following segments may optionally be considered as duplicates:
{34}Progress Report{35}
Progress Report{2}
{1}Progress Report
{34}{35}Progress Report{36}
Progress Report{2}

Outside placeholder differences are simple repair candidates that will be preformed by WorldServer reliably and automatically. For this reason, customers should consider reducing the outside placeholder penalty to zero. (See Safe Placeholder Repair for more information.) If this is done, the above segments will be considered as duplicates.

1 The order of the placeholders would be important, but the order never comes into play for source assets because they are always numbered in increasing order. Only the target segments may contain placeholders in a reordered manner, but target segments are not processed for repetitions.