Translating replicate strings
Software projects often contain replicate strings. To ensure consistent translation of replicates that occur in various places throughout the software, Passolo offers a method to proliferate a translation to all other occurrences that have the same source text. As soon as you have entered a translation, Passolo searches for untranslated replicates and indicates the number of occurrences found (Translate replicates).
If you click Yes the current translation will be used for all the repetitions found that have the same source string. The replicates translated in this manner will be marked as automatically translated and displayed in green text.
Depending on your settings, the entries found and the use of the translation may vary. See Options for the translation of replicate strings.
Changing the automatic translation of replicates
To prevent the automatic replicate translation of individual strings you can mark the relevant strings in the source string list.
- Select the string in the source string list
- Make sure that the Properties window of the source string is visible
- Click on the More tab
- Activate the No Replicate Translation option
Unifying replicates
Replicate strings can also be unified. This means that 100% matching source strings are unified in such a way that only the first occurrence of the string can be translated. The remaining occurrences of the string cannot be translated and are not counted in the statistics.