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Is it possible to get a specific translation in twig or to skip the translation?
I want to get an english translation for a specific field undependant from the current locale

Yes, you can force a locale like this:
{% trans with {'%name%': 'Fabien'} from "app" into "fr" %}Hello %name%{% endtrans %}
Found in documentation.

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Defining a locale for twig template translations when using `translation:update`

I'm having a bit of trouble with Symfony twig translations, and I hope someone here can clarify.
Say I have a file /templates/general/hello_world.twig , with the contents:
{% trans with {
'%name%': name,
} %}
"Hello %name%"
{% endtrans %}
When I call bin/console translation:update --output-format=yaml fr --force , the output file translations/messages+intl-icu.fr.yaml now contains the contents:
'"Hello %name%"': '__"Hello %name%"'
This is only the case with Twig files - I have other files in translations where they are locale-suffixed, and those are properly translated into french. I'm not clear what has to happen in order to get the translation:update command to recognize that the original content is in English?
I'm not asking how to choose a locale based on the user request. I'm specifically wanting to generate missing translations for contents in my twig templates, and I'd love to have this command available to get me started. The command works a treat for translations actually in the /translations/ folder.
Update 2
// hello.twig
{% trans with {
'%name%': name,
} %}hello_world{% endtrans %}
//messages.en.yaml
hello_world: "Hello %name%"

Is it possible to output message keys in Symfony

I have a Symfony 5 website that uses Twig templates containing messages translated with
{% trans %}some.message.key{% endtrans %}
Is there a way to have Symfony output the message key itself instead of the translation? This can be helpful during development and translation work.
To demonstrate what I want, have a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page?uselang=qqx, which shows such behavior in the MediaWiki software.

Symfony forcing translation into different language than the current one

I have the locale set to one language. Let's say german "de" and I want to have a part of the whole text translated into different languages (Ex. This happened 100 years ago -> This happened vor 100 Jahre). For this I am trying the following code:
//this returns 'site.dates.years'
{% set yearsText = yearsCount|displayTimeDivisions() %}
( {{ yearsCount }} {% trans with {'%content%': yearsText } from "messages" into "en" %}%content%{% endtrans %}
after using the trans method i get the string from yearsText ('site.dates.years') and not the translated content. Is this even possible to translate or I should drop it?
This works as expected, what you are trying to translate is %content%, not site.dates.years. Try this:
//this returns 'site.dates.years'
{% set yearsText = yearsCount|displayTimeDivisions() %}
( {{ yearsCount }} {% trans from "messages" into "en" %}{{ yearsText }}{% endtrans %}
Edit
The previous suggestion doesn't work as using trans in that way only works with simple text, not with variables.
This works for me:
{{ yearsText | trans({}, 'messages', 'en') }}
EDIT: clear cache
Sometimes Symfony has a too strong caching mechanism. If you work without locales first, and then modify controllers and twigs to be multi-locale and you also add a new messages file, Symfony loads all new controller/twigs but somehow misses that there are new message files. A simple cache clear, done ONLY ONCE (!) right after you add the message files, solves this problem. And thenceforth you don't need to clear the cache every time you change a translation.
Try this as a last resort. If this doesn't help I'd recommend to read carefully the documentation (link in the last line of this answer):
app/console cache:clear --env=dev
You may try one or all (!) of these, it's impossible to tell what is going wrong.
{{ yearsCount|trans }}
{{ 'site.dates.years'|trans }}
See if these translate. If the second does, you're setting the variable wrong, somehow.
If not, pass the _locale along in the route:
defaults: { _controller: Bundle:Controller:action, _locale: de }
Or have it as a route parameter:
path: /a/path/{_locale}/whatever
defaults: { _controller: Bundle:Controller:action }
requirements:
_locale: en|de
Print the locale to be sure it's properly set in the twig:
{{ app.request.locale }}
{{ app.request.getLocale() }}
If the locale prints out fine but the translation still does not work, it's because Symfony does not find the identifier. Go to the translations file and check that it's written correctly:
site:
dates:
years: Jahre
If you find it in messages.de.yml then maybe it's the wrong placement of the file. The loader searches for these files:
Symfony looks for message files (i.e. translations) in the following default locations:
the app/Resources/translations directory;
the app/Resources/MyAppBundle/translations directory;
the Resources/translations/ directory inside of any bundle.
If fiddling around with these files doesn't yield results, it's a configuration error in config.yml, or many overlapping errors (all of the above?) that work against you.
Here's the source of all pain/info about translations, but you've probably memorized every paragraph, by now: Symfony translations.

Pluralize string in Symfony 3

Are there any ways for pluralizing a string in Symfony 3? For example: I have "Object" and I would like to get "Objects".
pluralization is a very complex topic and Symfony embraces it as part if the Translation Component:
Message pluralization is a tough topic as the rules can be quite complex.
So you basically would need to activate translations for your system and translate the needed strings using the transChoice() method of the translator service or the 'transchoice' tag / filter in your twig template.
To handle this, use the transChoice() method or the transchoice tag/filter in your template.
using the translator service
// the %count% placeholder is assigned to the second argument...
$translator->transChoice(
'There is one apple|There are %count% apples',
10
);
// ...but you can define more placeholders if needed
$translator->transChoice(
'Hurry up %name%! There is one apple left.|There are %count% apples left.',
10,
// no need to include %count% here; Symfony does that for you
array('%name%' => $user->getName())
);
twig tags
{% trans %}Hello %name%{% endtrans %}
{% transchoice count %}
{0} There are no apples|{1} There is one apple|]1,Inf[ There are %count% apples
{% endtranschoice %}
UPDATE
If you do not know the string beforehand you can use the internal Inflector Component, but be aware of the disclaimer and the fact that this would only work for strings in English:
This component is currently marked as internal. Do not use it in your own code. Breaking changes may be introduced in the next minor version of Symfony, or the component itself might even be removed completely.
An alternative would be to create your own inflector class, e.g. something like this and create a service from it.

Symfony2 HTML in the trans twig filter

I use the Symfony2.1 and have the default config.yml
Documentation said:
{# but static strings are never escaped #}
{{ '<h3>foo</h3>'|trans }}
But if I copy and paste it into the my empty template (without any additional autoescapes or another) I got the escaped string <h3>foo</h3>. What I do wrong?
Try it with the twig raw filter:
{{ '<h3>foo</h3>' | trans | raw }}
However, do not use the raw filter if you are processing any user input! It allows for cross-site-scripting attacks, according to the creators of Symfony. See this similar question for a secure but more tedious alternative.
Holding HTML stuff in translations is wrong, because translators usually break it. But if you really need it:
{% trans %}<h3>foo</h3>{% endtrans %}
https://github.com/symfony/symfony/issues/2713#issuecomment-12510417

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