[Koha-bugs] [Bug 31640] New: Fuzzy translations of preferences can cause missing sections and inaccurate translations

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=31640

            Bug ID: 31640
           Summary: Fuzzy translations of preferences can cause missing
                    sections and inaccurate translations
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           Product: Koha
           Version: 22.05
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P5 - low
         Component: I18N/L10N
          Assignee: koha-bugs at lists.koha-community.org
          Reporter: kevin.carnes at ub.lu.se
        QA Contact: testopia at bugs.koha-community.org
                CC: frederic at tamil.fr

We noticed that when installing the Swedish translations in 22.05, the
translate program was using fuzzy translations for preferences. This resulted
in many strange translations when viewing the preferences in Swedish.

There were also some sections that were missing since multiple sections had the
same translated name and there can only be one section for each name since they
are hash keys.

Our solution is to ignore fuzzy translations for preferences, since we prefer
the original English, but it can be made an option if the fuzzy translations
are helpful to others.

The solution also adds warnings if a translation causes multiple sections to
have the same name.

When I run the warnings with fuzzy translations in 22.05.03, I get warnings in
65 languages (am-Ethi, ar-Arab, az-AZ, be-BY, bg-Cyrl, bn-IN, ca-ES, cs-CZ,
cy-GB, da-DK, de-CH, el-GR, en-GB, en-NZ, eo, eu, fa-Arab, fr-CA, gl, he-Hebr,
hi, hr-HR, hu-HU, hyw-Armn, id-ID, is-IS, ja-Jpan-JP, ka, ko-Kore-KP, ku-Arab,
lo-Laoo, mi-NZ, mon, mr, ms-MY, nb-NO, ne-NE, nl-BE, nl-NL, nn-NO, oc, pbr,
pl-PL, prs, pt-BR, pt-PT, ro-RO, ru-RU, sd-PK, sk-SK, sl-SI, sq-AL, sr-Cyrl,
sv-SE, ta-LK, te, tet, th-TH, tl-PH, tr-TR, uk-UA, ur-Arab, vi-VN, zh-Hans-CN,
zh-Hant-TW).

If there are languages where multiple sections should have the save name, we
can discuss using an array instead of a hash for the sections.

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