Punctuation isn't properly internationalised

[caesarsgrunt]

Punctuation should be included in i18n strings, because it is often quite different in foreign languages.

For example, there are several places where exclamation marks are not internationalised.
However, languages such as Spanish also have an exclamation mark at the beginning of the question, whilst there may be languages which do not sue it at all.

An example of this is in wp-admin/comment.php, where the following appears repeatedly :

sprintf(' <a href="%s">'.__('Go back').'</a>!', ...)

Correct alternatives are :

sprintf(' <a href="%s">'.__('Go back!').'</a>', ...)

Or, if you want to keep the punctuation out of the link :

sprintf(__('<a href="%s">Go back</a>!'), ...)

There are other similar i18n punctuation problems scattered throughout WP.

I went through allof 4093 items containing translations (!!), found only two cases

I think most of the places where this happens are where we are trying to avoid putting end punctuation within an anchor.

In [19782]:

Kill the exclamation points off an error message for easier translation. props wojtek.szkutnik, fixes #11270.

To emphasize what ryan wrote, we try to avoid putting end punctuation within an anchor. Please re-open if there are any other strings with these problems, so we'll deal with them on a case by case basis.