Replacing periods automatically when I use Translating Replicants function?

We use Passolo 2016.

When I say "Yes" in the Translating Replicants dialog to apply the same translation for the other identical strings in the project, it seems that Passolo replaces Japanese periods (。) with English periods (.) automatically. I thought maybe this is some Auto Correct function, but I did not find any Auto Correct function in Passolo. Is this a bug?

Thanks and regards,

Satoe

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0 Demian Ichinose over 6 years ago

Hi Satoe Ideguchi-Nthara -san

I don't have an answer to why this is happening, but I am confirming that I was able to reproduce this issue in Passolo 2018 (Team Collaboration Edition). I have a feeling this is a bug.

Repro Notes:
Depending on the replicate strings, I've seen instances where the both strings' double-byte period (that were saved to .glo) transform into single-byte period, or just one of the string's transform into single-byte period.

Achim Herrmann do you know if this is a possible setting issue or not? If this is a bug I will follow up with a report.
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0 Satoe Ideguchi-Nthara over 6 years ago in reply to Demian Ichinose

Hi Demian,

Thanks for your comment. I found out by chance this is due to the settings under File --> Options --> Translation Helpers --> Replicates.
Under "Using translation", there is an option "Transfer these characters at beginning and end of a source string to translation". I deactivated all the check marks there, then Passolo stopped replacing the Japanese periods with English periods.
I am not sure if these are checked by defaults. If so, it is not ideal for some languages...

Regards,
Satoe
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0 Satoe Ideguchi-Nthara over 6 years ago in reply to Satoe Ideguchi-Nthara

Hi,

Just for an additional information (mostly for me, so that I can find this information in the future...) .

For languages that do not use the same punctuation marks as in the source languages, you need to deactivate the option "Transfer these characters at beginning and end of a source string to translation" in File --> Options --> Translation Helpers --> Pre-Translation as well. Otherwise, Passolo inserts unwanted punctuation marks when you have it pre-translate the strings!!!

@Passolo development
It would be good if this option is NOT activated by default. Ideal would be - Passolo detects the source and target language and identify if both languages use or do not use the same punctuation marks. And it activates or deactivates this option depending on that.

Satoe
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Replacing periods automatically when I use Translating Replicants function?