Hard to translate: "Required if you want to change the %mail or %pass below."

Actually, Your current password is missing or incorrect; it's required to change the %name. is not easier to translate, not even in Italian.

In Italian, the translation of Your current password is missing or incorrect; it's required to change the email. is La tua password corrente è mancante o errata; è necessaria per modificare l'email.. The translation of Your current password is missing or incorrect; it's required to change the password. is La tua password corrente è mancante o errata; è necessaria per modificare la password..

In Russian, the translation for Your current password is missing or incorrect; it's required to change the %name. Your current password is missing or incorrect; it's required to change the email. Your current password is missing or incorrect; it's required to change the password. are the following.

• Ваш текущий пароль отсутствует или неверен; необходимо изменить %name.
• Ваш текущий пароль отсутствует или неверен; необходимо изменить электронную почту.
• Ваш текущий пароль отсутствует или неверен; требуется сменить пароль.

Also in this case, the sentence changes basing on what replaces %name.

amanmansuri72 → made their first commit to this issue’s fork.

There is some confusion here. I was referring to the string in the issue summary. The string in the issue summary is "Enter your current password to change the %mail or %pass. !request_new." That string was changed in core 2011, #1326172: Improve wording of the "Current password" field description on the user edit form → , to "Required if you want to change the %mail or %pass below". That string is still in core.

The string in #36, is different from those two. The string in #36 added in 2010 in [#8629]. So, I think that should be a separate issue.

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My comment was a reply to comment #35, which says:

I tested this on 9.2.x and the string Enter your current password to change the %mail or %pass. does not exist in the code base nor in 8.9.x. It was replaced with <code>Your current password is missing or incorrect; it's required to change the %name.in #2418119: REST user updates bypass tightened user account change validation → in March 2015. The new string is easier to translate (looking at the Italian translation right now).

Since the string still exists in D7 moving to the Drupal 7 issue queue.

I did not check which string was actually used, but that comment said the string used in Drupal 7 was replaced from Your current password is missing or incorrect; it's required to change the %name., which is them said to be easier to translate.

Even Required if you want to change the %mail or %pass below has the same issue the original string has: Other languages could have more than a definite article, or could use no definite article at all.
In Italian, the definite articles are il, lo, la, gli, i, le, not considering that it is l'email, not la email, but it is la mail. Without knowing which word is used, after the article, I can just guess basing on the placeholder, with the consequence that l'mail or la email could appear, depending on my guess and what value is used for %mail.

In Norvegian seems to be even more difficult, as the translation of la signora seems to be damen, while the translation of il bambino seems to be barnet. In both the cases, the bold part in the word is what replaces the article. (The translation of signora would be dam.)

So, I came to two different conclusions based on my git research. That doesn't help this at all!

I have updated the issue summary

@avpaderno, do you have a suggestions to fix this?

The solution is simple: Do not use placeholders after an article.

(I forgot the link to the documentation page.)

The only time the %mail is used in a translatable string is in the core/modules/user/src/AccountForm.php file.
I would leave other cases of placeholder after an article to other issues.

Could the issue summary be updated to the standard template please.

I apologize: I was not able to retrieve this issue.

Much appreciated @avpaderno believe the change is good.

Committed/pushed to 11.x and cherry-picked to 10.4.x, thanks!

catch → closed merge request !9061

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