In Lighthouse project, backtick is being used to indicate something that should not be localized.
(See 'inline code block' section in https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse/tree/master/lighthouse-core/lib/i18n)
We can adopt this with minor modification. When the lighthouse report is being rendered, the backtick in message will be converted to a special html tag and used to style the code snippets. Since we don't want to do special styling for locked terms, backtick can be removed after the term being converted to placeholder in en-US.ctc.json, then locale.json would have the term that is not translated and without the backtick .
For example
Before change: https://imgur.com/a/WqbVbXC
After change: https://imgur.com/a/EZjl6Gg
Note: There is no escape character for using backticks as part of the string, it can only be used for locked terms.
DISABLE_THIRD_PARTY_CHECK=Need to also update README that is in different folder
Bug: 1136655
Change-Id: I68ea305962beec4115d0a50f24e34546b92cadf7
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/devtools/devtools-frontend/+/2463990
Commit-Queue: Christy Chen <chrche@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Vidal Diazleal <vidorteg@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Zünd <szuend@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Marshall <petermarshall@chromium.org>
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