WeblateOrg / WeblateOrg/weblate

Some files on the 'App store metadata' format should be processed as texts, not strings

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### Describe the problem

### Discussed in https://github.com/orgs/WeblateOrg/discussions/16167

Originally posted by **emmapeel2** September 11, 2025
I have added some components for our Android apps to have their metadata translated.

The weblate component make it very easy and straightforward to add a folder with the metadata and the different .txt files.

Some of the files are very small, only one string. Like `title.txt` or `short_description.txt`. But some others can be long, like `full_description.txt` or the changelogs in the changelogs directory.

Also the strings at the `full_description.xt` file are already present on our Weblate project in other components, so it is particularly bothersome to translate a huge strings composed of a lot of small strings that you already translated in some other component... feels frustrating for translators (I read one translator call this 'ocupational therapy for translators').

It should be possible to separate those multi-paragraph strings into smaller strings, otherwise immense strings are offered for translation, and they rarely get updated because they are impossible to review/update.

Here an example: https://hosted.weblate.org/translate/guardianproject/orbot-metadata/es/?checksum=502bfece59e1216b

### Solution brainstorm

Expand the appstore parser to support splitting some files into smaller chunks.

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