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MT localization - bugs where code tags are used, elements rearranged in random order

Open sdwheeler opened this issue 4 years ago • 1 comments

In Machine Translated articles, characters are randomly moved to incorrect positions, not aligned with source and original intent, rendering the meaning and customer experience incorrect:

Compare these two pages:

en-us: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/about/about_arithmetic_operators?view=powershell-7.1 es-es: https://docs.microsoft.com/es-es/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/about/about_arithmetic_operators?view=powershell-7.1

en-us: image

es-es:

image

Similarly, compare these two pages: en-us: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/about/about_break?view=powershell-7.1 es-es: https://docs.microsoft.com/es-es/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/about/about_break?view=powershell-7.1

en-us: image

es-es: image

sdwheeler avatar Aug 11 '21 16:08 sdwheeler

This is a known issue with Machine Translation. The problem is being investigated.

Internal work items:

  • https://ceapex.visualstudio.com/CEINTL/_workitems/edit/436465

sdwheeler avatar Aug 11 '21 16:08 sdwheeler

The localization team has made improvements with this but there are still cases where this occurs. This issue is being tracked by the localization team. There is nothing we can do here in the docs repository so I am closing this issue.

sdwheeler avatar Nov 18 '22 14:11 sdwheeler