Placeholders for .po source to .xml and .strings files

[keikoang]

Describe the issue

Hello, our translation files in Weblate are based in .po and they are the base for translating to Android .xml and iOS .strings. We have configured $STRING$ for string placeholder, as in the screenshot below

When exporting to Android .xml we want the $STRING$ to be converted to %s while exporting to iOS .strings, we want the $STRING$ to be converted to %@. Is there a way to make this happen without having two different translation projects/components, one for Android, and the other one for iOS?

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• I've read and searched the documentation.
• I've searched for similar issues in this repository.

Steps to reproduce the behavior

Configure any placeholders in the settings

Expected behavior

When exporting to Android .xml we want the $STRING$ to be converted to %s while exporting to iOS .strings, we want the $STRING$ to be converted to %@. Is there a way to make this happen without having two different translation projects/components, one for Android, and the other one for iOS?

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[github-actions]

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[nijel]

Weblate doesn't support any such conversions.

[github-actions]

This issue has been put aside. It is currently unclear if it will ever be implemented as it seems to cover too narrow of a use case or doesn't seem to fit into Weblate.

Please try to clarify the use case or consider proposing something more generic to make it useful to more users.