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How translation works

What is machine, what is reviewed, and what is left alone.

• How translation works

  From the text on your page to a translated page in the visitor's browser, step by step, in plain words.

• Machine and reviewed translations

  The four translation states, what each one means, which ones a machine run can change, and why you should check important text.

• What is and is not translated

  Which text on a page is translated, which is left alone on purpose, and which text the product cannot reach.

• Tags and placeholders

  What the numbered tags and the special tokens in a translation mean, and the one rule for editing them safely.