i18n: Should strings between square brackets being translated?

[rakekniven]

tasks/src/components/TaskBody.vue

Line 248 in 07e12ba

lastDay: this.$t('tasks', '[Completed yesterday at] LT'),

Should we translate the strings? If no they are placeholders and being replaced?

[raimund-schluessler]

These are strings for moment.js. moment.js uses brackets to escape strings: https://momentjs.com/docs/#/displaying/format/. So yes, strings in square brackets need to be translated, the LT is a token for moment.js and will be replaced with a time.

I guess we should put a note how to translate it similar to here:

tasks/src/components/TheDetails.vue

Line 477 in 07e12ba

// TRANSLATORS This is a string for moment.js. The square brackets escape the string from moment.js. Please translate the string and keep the brackets.

[rakekniven]

Unfortunately that doesn't help because the vue files are getting "compressed" and we loose your comments. See

[rakekniven]

For PHP files it works.

https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/richdocumentscode/blob/master/lib/Settings/Section.php#L62

[raimund-schluessler]

Unfortunately that doesn't help because the vue files are getting "compressed" and we loose your comments.

Any other ideas? I don't see anything we can do besides putting a comment there.