Studio not recognizing "seconds" as a unit?

Question

I have a list with hundreds of time values in seconds (benchmarking stuff). Here's a part of it: 
 
 The auto-substitution is set to: 
 
 But this setting is ignored by Studio (applies for 2017 and 2019). 
 Obviously "s" (for seconds) is not recognized by Studio as being a "unit". This is quite disappointing. I cannot even use auto-propagation and need to manually edit each single segment. 
 Is there no way to tell Studio that "s" is a "unit"?

Paul Filkin · Answer

Hi Horst-Helge Liefers 
 
I think there are a couple of things here. First of all there should always be a space between the number and a unit when writing seconds, but if you do this you'll see that Studio fails to recognise this as a valid number and unit anyway so number recognition fails there. 
 
Second thing is that in your incorrectly written source Studio does actually seen to recognise the number and unit because the number and the unit is underlined as you can see in segment #532. However, it is not paying any attention to the auto-substitution rules so you can't put a space in there. I think this is most likely because the recognition is actually as an alpha-numeric and not as a number and unit. 
 
On this basis the bug is that seconds are not correctly recognised as a unit of measurement for numbers since it's behaving correctly otherwise. Auto-propagation will work however, but you get all the target numbers without a space. So at least you can work with this since you can now easily search and replace the project for numbers and seconds and insert the space using regex. 
 
Not ideal I know, but at least you have a workaround until the development team fix Studio to properly handle numbers and units. I can tell you that Studio fails with these: 
 
3 s 
4 s 
7 cd 
8 m2 
9 m3 
10 m/s 
11 m/s2 
12 m-1 
13 kg/m3 
14 m3/kg 
15 A/m2 
16 A/m 
17 mol/m3 
18 cd/m2 
19 rad 
20 sr 
23 Pa 
26 C 
28 F 
29 Ω 
30 S 
31 Wb 
32 T 
33 H 
35 lm 
36 lx 
37 Bq 
38 Gy 
39 Sv 
40 kat 
41 Pa s 
42 N m 
43 N/m 
44 rad/s 
45 rad/s2 
46 W/m2 
47 J/K 
48 J/(kg K) 
49 J/kg 
50 W/(m K) 
51 J/m3 
52 V/m 
53 C/m3 
54 C/m2 
55 F/m 
56 H/m 
57 J/mol 
58 J/(mol K) 
59 C/kg 
60 Gy/s 
61 W/sr 
62 W/(m2 sr) 
63 kat/m3 
65 h 
66 d 
68 ' 
69 " 
71 L 
73 Np 
75 dB 
76 eV 
77 u 
78 ua 
 
and succeeds with these: 
 
1 m 
2 kg 
5 K 
6 mol 
21 Hz 
22 N 
24 J 
25 W 
27 V 
34 °C 
64 min 
67 ° 
70 l 
72 t 
74 B 
 
I took these from the SI units and have tested them with every release since 2009. There have been some changes... unfortunately for the worse... but the workaround is to allow Studio to do its thing and then search and replace afterwards to make the corrections since the most important thing is to get the number right in the translation.

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Studio not recognizing "seconds" as a unit?