Is there a way for punctuation rules not to be applied to web adresses, hence no error message ?

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Hi, 
 I am translating into French. So the rules for french punctuation are always on. 
 What I would like is not having an error message - telling me that I do not respect the punctuation- when I translate a web adress. Is this possible ? and how ? 
 Cheers, Manuella

Paul · Accepted Answer

Hi Manuella Lange 
 I think Ana-Maria Matefi was heading in this direction once she knew what you were seeing. There are two parts to this: 
 Part 1 
 You need to remove the colon from the French Punctuation rules here: 
 
 Part 2 
 You need to create a new rule for the colon but one that excludes http addresses. To do this you can create a regular expression rule in here: 
 
 To make this more clear: 
 RegEx Source: ^(?:(?!http://))(\w*)(:\w*) 
 RegEx target: $1 $2 
 Condition: Grouped search expression - report if source matches but not target 
 This basically checks to see whether a string starts with http:// and if it does then it's ignored. If it doesn't then it checks to see whethrer you used a space before the colon. It won't catch inline web addresses so you'd have to play with the expression if you need that, but based on your example text it should be good. 
 Part 3 
 There is probably a part three to this for us. To make sure that when French punctuation rules are activated and a colon is used, then don't check web addresses.

Ana-Maria Matefi · Answer

Hello Manuella Lange , 
 
Can you please send me an example of your document and one of the error message that you have. 
 
Thank you in advance. 
Ana

Ana-Maria Matefi · Answer

Manuella Lange (ManuellaLange) , 
 Please see if the image below can help you to add the file and the screen shot with the error. 
 
 Thanks 
 Ana

Manuella Lange · Answer

Bonjour Jean, 
 Just go to the "expression r&eacute;guli&egrave;re" window, click on the button to the right "Action" , then on "exemples" and finally on "contient un lien internet". 
 Bonne journ&eacute;e, Manuella

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Is there a way for punctuation rules not to be applied to web adresses, hence no error message ?