Crowdin keeps removing soft hyphen characters

devteam-motatos · June 27, 2024, 8:59am

We are having couple of \u00AD (soft hyphen) characters in our translation files. We uploaded the source and translations into Crowdin and set up GitHub integration.

Whenever we receive a PR with translation updates now from Crowdin, it is replacing all of our soft hyphen unicode characters by empty strings in the exported json files.

I tried the following:

add All available Unicode characters in the Crowdin Editor plugin and insert the soft hyphen via Crowdin UI
add soft hyphen by a keyboard shortcut in Crowdin UI
copy and paste the soft hyphen from somewhere else into Crowdin UI

None of these have helped, we still got the character replaced in Crowdin PRs.

Is it a bug or are we doing something wrong?

Ira · June 27, 2024, 10:58am

Hi @devteam-motatos! Would it be possible to share a screenshot of the string in the editor you see and what you get on export?

devteam-motatos · June 28, 2024, 8:40am

We’ve been able to resolve that. While Crowdin keeps removing string \u00AD from the translation files, it is also replacing it by the actual character, which is unfortunately invisible in GitHub PR diff. It is not very intuitive and it is hard to spot and verify, but it works.