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[MartinIQ]

Withing the old wordpress.com translation system it was very easy to link to a specific string within the system by copying the url from the browser address bar. In this way you could e.g. discuss about it within the forums or ask the wordpress.com staff about a particular string by pointing to the URL.

Translators like myself sometimes have difficulties to figure out the context in which the string is used or where it belongs to. So we have to ask the support. For this we need some kind of link to point the support guys|girls to the right spot.

I thought about some kind of permalink for every string which can be found within the details screen, if this is possible.

I too think this is a needed improvement.

Look for the infinity.

This is a really long URL. How about a URL-Shortener?

I don't think it's necessary, and maybe if GlotPress supports plugins, we should make a plugin that does the shortening instead of implementing it right into the core?

Maybe it is just a WordPress?.com specific problem, but the long permalinks with all the brackets [ and ] are all broken on WP.com-Forums, because the brackets ([ and ]) are filtered out. (See this entry for example: ​http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/space-at-the-end-of-strings) Maybe this is more a bbpress-bug, but it can be solved if GlotPress would provide a shortener (or another permalink structure without [ and ]).
You even can't use [ / &#093 to mask the brackets ...