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How to Translate HubSpot CMS Pages, Emails and Forms

HubSpot's multi-language groups handle pages well. Emails, forms and smart content are separate systems, and that is where the gaps open as well.

Instagram has no translation features worth using. The text is in the image and the caption, and each needs a different approach almost everywhere.

Two file types, one job. Strings handles the simple cases and stringsdict handles plurals, which is where most iOS localizations fall short as well.

Properties files look like simple key-value pairs. The escaping rules and the locale-suffix naming are where they actually go wrong for most banks.

Markdown is mostly safe to translate, apart from four things that silently corrupt: code fences, link syntax, front matter keys and anchors as well.

In PHP, strings live in code. The job is separating what a user reads from what the interpreter runs, and most projects have never done it as well.

In a .po file the msgid is an identifier, not a sentence. Editing it detaches the string from the code that requests it as well almost everywhere.

A .pot is a template with empty translations. Translating it directly is the mistake — you generate .po files from it, one per language in practice.

A .potm combines the advantage of a template with the fragility of a macro file. Both properties matter and they pull in opposite directions as well.