[glotpress-updates] [GlotPress] #263: On import, detect when a string has minor changes and keep the original translations.

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#263: On import, detect when a string has minor changes and keep the original
translations.
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  Reporter:  yoavf        |      Owner:
      Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
  Priority:  major        |  Milestone:  Future Release
 Component:  general      |    Version:  0.1
Resolution:               |   Keywords:  has-patch
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Comment (by yoavf):

 Replying to [comment:4 nacin]:

 > If a string is less than, say, 15 or 20 characters, is fuzziness worth
 it? I imagine that the 75% should be a sliding scale. A 75% (or
 even 80%) match of 20 characters would probably result in false positives,
 while 75% (or less) might be OK when dealing with particularly long
 strings.

 I agree, I'll see about making this variable based on length.

 > It would be good if this was entirely driven by filters. So here's
 string A, here's string B, please return true/false as to whether the
 string is fuzzy. Then a function could hook in and decide if the strings
 are close enough. (Inside this callback could be a filter controlling the
 75% threshold.)
 >
 > One benefit of a hook is that on WordPress.org I would want to log all
 50%+ matches over the course of a number of imports, to see if the
 threshold is appropriate, or if it is flagging a lot of false positives
 (the problem here being where a string's meaning changes but translators
 don't pick up on it).

 I'll work on that.

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