Allow filtering internationalized strings

[swissspidy]

In WordPress core, every single string that is passed to __() & co. can be filtered using the gettext filter in translate().

Arguments to that filter are the original text, the translation, and the text domain.

For ultimate flexibility, I suggest adding the same filters to gettext functions in the i18n package.

[gziolo]

Is it a duplicate of #14833?

Well, maybe the other way around.

[leewillis77]

Hi;

I'm jumping into this after reading the linked PR (#12517). I'm the author of the Say What? plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/say-what/) which uses the PHP gettext filters extensively to do it's job. Currently there's no way (that I can tell) that it can do the same job on JS strings without that PR (or an alternative) landing. It looks like other plugins have similar issues (https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_set_script_translations/)

#12517 was closed but without a clarifying comment about the status so I'm unsure where things lie currently. I don't think the filters have been added. Is there anything I can do to help quantify the need, discuss potential solutions / test?

[kuuak]

Hello there,

I'm exactly in the same situation as @leewillis77.
I've been looking around for a solution to replace a string in the publish_panel and without a JS filter, like i18n.gettext in #12517, there is no way to change the strings.

Is there any indication wether this feature could be set for a next release?

Thanks

[gziolo]

Resolved with #27966 🎉