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Carriage returns disappear from translations #123
Description
Hi,
I'm having a problem managing \r and \n CARRIAGE RETURN characters.
I want to translate sentences containing CARRIAGE RETURN characters that can be located right in the middle of sentences.
I use the following parameters to ask DeepL not to take CARRIAGE RETURN characters into account:
import deepl
translator = deepl.Translator('my_auth_key')
text = "Отпустите рюкзак\r\nи он автоматически\r\nвернется на место"
translation = translator.translate_text(
text,
source_lang=deepl.Language.RUSSIAN,
target_lang=deepl.Language.ENGLISH_AMERICAN,
formality=deepl.Formality.PREFER_LESS,
split_sentences=deepl.SplitSentences.NO_NEWLINES,
# preserve_formatting=True # Doesn't help, even when uncommented
).text
The meaning of the translations via the API with the DeepL python library are correct but I lose the CARRIAGE RETURN characters in the results (I have also tried with preserve_formatting=True but no better)
I tried with \n instead of \r\n but same results too.
text : 'Отпустите рюкзак\r\nи он автоматически\r\nвернется на место'
translation : 'Let go of the backpack and it will automatically return to its place'
text : 'Отпустите рюкзак\nи он автоматически\nвернется на место'
translation : 'Let go of the backpack and it will automatically return to its place'
Here's what I expect to happen:
text : 'Отпустите рюкзак r\nи он автоматически\r\nвернется на место'
translation : 'Let go of the backpack\r\nand it will automatically\r\nreturn to its place'
text : 'Отпустите рюкзак\nи он автоматически\nвернется на место'
translation : 'Let go of the backpack\nand it will automatically\nreturn to its place'
Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks in advance
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peurKe commentedon Nov 25, 2024
The workaround I've found to deal with this is to use an xml tag and ignore it with the ignore_tags parameter to get LF placeholders that I can then replace with CARRIAGE RETURN characters::
Then replace all these LF placeholders with \n to finally get the result I was expecting:
But I'd like to avoid using xml tags and let DeepL take care of keeping the \r and \n CARRIAGE RETURN characters.
Is this possible, or am I doing something wrong?
jidkano commentedon May 10, 2026
DeepL it's been almost two years, any chance we can get a response to this one? Still waiting for a clean way to make DeepL simply respect line breaks, which shouldn't be so hard.