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I would like to translate:

{ORANGE}{STRING}{BLACK} required in winter

as:

{BLACK}Feum air {ORANGE}{STRING}{BLACK} sa gheamhradh

but I get an error message:
http://translator.openttd.org/en/trunk/ ... RED_WINTER

I could do some manoeuvering with the translation if this can't be fixed, but it would make the sentence rather strained. I suspect other languages/strings might have similar problems where the word order differs from English.

ETA: Here's another example:

{BLACK}Town is {RED}not{BLACK} growing

The negation in Gaelic has to come at the front. This is obligatory in the language:

{RED}Chan eil {BLACK}a' fàs

and I get:
http://translator.openttd.org/en/trunk/ ... OW_STOPPED

Of course, I could add an extraneous {BLACK} in this case that doesn't do anything, but the basic problem still remains.

Maybe the solution we need is that the translator checks if every colour is there, but does not check how often it is there.

This probably doesn't address the general problem, but do you reallly need the first {BLACK} in the string below? As far as I've understood, black is the default text colour.

{BLACK}Feum air {ORANGE}{STRING}{BLACK} sa gheamhradh

@GunChleoc: We almost completely broke the WebTranslator, but you might now try again to enter your translation.
Thanks TrueBrain for making it work in the end again

@Joel A: There is no such thing like a default colour. In fact, if the english string starts with a colour code, and the translation does not, it might start with a random colour. (different on every redraw)

It's working now, thank you!