Variable placeholders getting corrupted while using Google translate API

[hackerkid]

@leolabs Thanks for building this. This is a fantastic tool with excellent documentation and made my life a lot easier.

But I did face an issue while using this tool.

So I was trying to translate the strings without arabic translations in the following for fixing zulip/zulip#18933.

https://github.com/zulip/zulip/blob/05352f417a8f163ee8bda1fc1593875c432c5297/locale/ar/translations.json.

npx json-autotranslate -t natural --matcher icu -d -i locale -c google-key.json

The command completed sucesfully. But 17 strings ended up having the variable names corrupted. There are 55 strings with a variables in the file. So around 30% of the strings ended up being corrupted. I guess the good news is 70% got translated correctly :)

Here are the list of strings that were corrupted. The first line contains the string in English and the second line contains the translation in Arabic.

```bash
Are you sure you want to mention all <strong>__count__</strong> people in this stream? <br> This will send email and mobile push notifications to most of those <strong>__count__</strong> users. <br> If you don't want to do that, please edit your message to remove the <strong>@__mention__</strong> mention.
هل تريد بالتأكيد ذكر جميع <strong>__count__ من</strong> الأشخاص في مجموعة البث هذه؟<br>سيؤدي هذا إلى إرسال إشعارات عبر البريد الإلكتروني والجوال إلى معظم هؤلاء <strong>__العدد__ من</strong> المستخدمين.<br>إذا كنت لا تريد القيام بذلك ، يرجى تعديل رسالتك <strong>لإزالة__mention__</strong> الإشارة.

Message __- recipient_names__
الرسالة __- أسماء المستلمين__

Narrow to stream &quot;__display_recipient__&quot;
ضيق للدفق & quot؛ __ display_recipient __ & quot؛

Narrow to stream &quot;__display_recipient__&quot;, topic &quot;__topic__&quot;
ضيق للدفق & quot؛ __ display_recipient __ & quot ؛، موضوع & quot؛ __ موضوع __ & quot؛

Narrow to your private messages with __display_reply_to__
تضييق نطاق رسائلك الخاصة باستخدام __عرض_الرد على_تو__

Organization using __percent_used__% of __upload_quota__.
منظمة تستخدم __percent_used __٪ من __upload_quota__.

Owner: __name__
اسم المالك__

This organization is configured to restrict editing of message content to __minutes_to_edit__ minutes after it is sent.
تم تكوين هذه المؤسسة لتقييد تحرير محتوى الرسالة بـ __دقائق_لتحرير__ دقائق بعد إرسالها.

You (click to remove) reacted with __- emoji_name__
لقد (انقر للإزالة) تفاعلت بـ __- اسم_إيموجي__

You and __display_reply_to__
أنت و __عرض_الرد على_إلى__

You and __recipients__
أنت و __المستلمون_

You are not subscribed to stream __stream__
أنت غير مشترك في البث __ Stream__

You subscribed to stream __stream__
لقد اشتركت في البث __ Stream__

You unsubscribed from stream __stream__
لقد ألغيت اشتراكك في تيار __ Stream__

__- username__ reacted with __- emoji_name__
__- اسم المستخدم__ تفاعل بـ __- اسم_إيموجي__

__starred_status__ this message
__ starred_status__ هذه الرسالة

private messages with __- recipient__
رسائل خاصة مع __- المستلم__

Any idea why this happened?

[leolabs]

It looks like the placeholders aren't in the right format. This tool works either with ICU/i18next placeholders like {email} or with sprintf-style placeholders like %s. I could implement a new matcher that matches placeholders like __email__, but I haven't seen any library that uses them like that. Which library are you using for your translations?