Copy English source strings when creating new translations

[sr258]

By default, all strings in a new translation created by Weblate are empty. The application for which I run a localization site expects untranslated string to be copies of the original English source strings. Is there a way of configuring Weblate to change how it creates new translations?

I also now have a number of translations that contain these empty strings. Can I somehow batch edit those to copy the English source strings for cases in which the translated string is empty?

[nijel]

I don't think there currently is such option. The general issue with this approach is that there is typically no way to distinguish non-translated string from a string intentionally kept the same while translating.

[sr258]

I agree that it's not a good approach, but that's how the application expects it and I can't change it, unfortunately.

[nijel]

Yes, it might have some use-cases, I've created an issue to track this feature: #5692