Plain Text (TXT)

< (less-than)

&lt;

> (greater-than)

&gt;

& (ampersand)

&amp;

' (apostrophe or single quote)

" (double-quote)

Used to retain entity escaping for all non-base entities. For example, normally we turn &copy; into © but if we use this new directive the translation will automatically update to use escaping from the source. For each entity character, we'll check to see if it was escaped in the source and try to match (propagate) it in the target.

The default is none which is the current behavior, which recognizes HTML4 entities only - if HTML5 entities are required as well, you must use the entity_escaping_type=propagate directive.

propagate will only affect non-base entities - all named entities except &amp; , &quot;, &lt;, &gt; . Base entities continue to be controlled by HTML detection and the entity_escaping directive.

If the same character is both escaped and unescaped in the same string, propagate will return the characters in the translation escaped in the same order as they were in the source. However, if there are a different number of characters in the translation where the translation process removed or added some and the escaping is inconsistent among them, propagate will escape all entities for that character.

This does not affect source content at all - so using it will not result in new strings.

Numerical entities are not considered at all with this directive, and are treated normally.

smartling.entity_escaping_strategy = propagate

If the same character is both escaped and unescaped in the same string, propagate will return the characters in the translation escaped in the same order as they were in the source.

However, if there are a different number of characters in the translation where the translation process removed or added some and the escaping is inconsistent among them, propagate will escape all entities for that character.

This does not affect source content at all - so using it will not result in new strings.

propagate will only affect non-base entities - all named entities except &amp; , &quot;, &lt;, &gt;. Base entities continue to be controlled by HTML detection and the entity_escaping directive.

entity_escaping_type

html4 (default)|html5

(case-insensitive)

By default, all html4 entities are unescaped, except the basic set: &lt; &gt; &amp; &quot;.

When this directive is set to html5, all html5 entities will be unescaped as well. 

If you choose to set this directive to html5, you must also use the entity_escaping_strategy=propagate directive

smartling.entity_escaping_type = html

text_break_method

• DO_NOT_BREAK
• BREAK_BY_NEWLINE (default)
• BREAK_BY_BLANK_LINE 

This directive control line breaks in HTML files:

• BREAK_BY_NEWLINE - strings are bound by line breaks (default)
• BREAK_BY_BLANK_LINE - strings are bound by blank lines
• DO_NOT_BREAK - all content ingested as one string

smartling.text_break_method=DO_NOT_BREAK

placeholder_format

Specifies iOS-style placeholders for the file.

smartling.placeholder_format_custom = REGEX

smartling.placeholder_format_custom=\{([^}]+)\}

Any characters surrounded by curly brackets, e.g., {first name}, will be treated as a placeholder.

Sets the percentage by which original strings are inflated when downloading pseudo translations. If this directive is not set, pseudo translations are 30 percent longer than the original strings.

smartling.pseudo_inflation = 80

Downloaded pseudo translations will increase the length of original strings by 80 percent.

whitespace_trim

on|yes|true or off|no|false or leading|trailing

The default value is on.

A whitespace is any character or series of characters that represent horizontal or vertical space in typography. When rendered, a whitespace character is not a visible mark, but does occupy an area or space on a page.

Although whitespaces are necessary within a string (typically to separate words), unnecessary whitespaces can be found at the start of a string (leading) and at the end of a string (trailing).

With this directive, you can trim whitespaces, as it enables or disables whitespace trim management for the ingested strings.

Whitespace is optionally trimmed from content then re-inserted on download for convenience so that translators do not have to manage the extra spaces. However, content owners may want to retain surrounding whitespace so that translators can
manipulate it during translation.

By default, the leading and trailing whitespaces are trimmed.

You can choose to disable trimming or specify trimming for leading or trailing whitespaces.

The directive can only be used as the API request parameter.

smartling.whitespace_trim=on

Smartling will trim leading and trailing whitespaces (default)

smartling.whitespace_trim=off

Smartling will not trim leading or trailing whitespaces

smartling.whitespace_trim=leading

Smartling will trim only leading whitespaces

smartling.whitespace_trim=trailing

Smartling will trim only trailing whitespaces