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Bug or feature in tra() ?

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Subject
Bug or feature in tra() ?
Version
25.x
Category
  • Bug
  • Consistency
  • Less than 30-minutes fix
  • Support request
Feature
Admin Interface (UI)
Resolution status
Fixed or Solved
Submitted by
hman
Lastmod by
Nat Okpe
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Description

Is it a bug or a feature, that truncates the output of strings after a pipe symbol?
Example to illustrate: /lib/prefs/feature, line 2425:

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'feature_wiki_argvariable' => [
			'name' => tra('Wiki argument variables'),
			'description' => tra('Allow writing request variables in wiki content using {{paramname}} or {{paramname|default}} - special case {{page}} {{user}}'),
			'type' => 'flag',
			'help' => 'Advanced+Wiki+Syntax+usage+examples',
			'default' => 'n',
			'keywords' => 'arg var vars',
		],


The output of this descriptions stops at the pipe symbol between paramname and default, supposedly in all languages, including English. I cannot translate into German with this entry in custom.php:

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"Allow writing request variables in wiki content using {{paramname}} or {{paramname|default}} - special case {{page}} {{user}}" => "Argumentvariablen innerhalb von Wiki-Inhalten mit {{paramname}} oder {{paramname|standard}} erlauben - Sonderfall {{page}} {{user}}",

but when I replace the pipe with a slash, all is well:

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"Allow writing request variables in wiki content using {{paramname}} or {{paramname|default}} - special case {{page}} {{user}}" => "Argumentvariablen innerhalb von Wiki-Inhalten mit {{paramname}} oder {{paramname/standard}} erlauben - Sonderfall {{page}} {{user}}",

So please check whether this is a bug or a feature of tra(), and depending on this check either fix it or change in English this description, to use text without a pipe.

Side remark: The pipe doesn't show here, just as the the arguments in double curly braces! Although I enclosed my code sample in CODE tags! ( Arguments are interpreted first before anything else. That's what ~np~nonparsed~/np~ is for)

Importance
4
Easy to solve?
10 easy
Priority
40
Demonstrate Bug on Tiki 19+
Demonstrate Bug (older Tiki versions)
Ticket ID
7469
Created
Thursday 06 August, 2020 13:49:41 UTC
by hman
LastModif
Wednesday 27 April, 2022 12:19:08 UTC


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