Fixing spacing punctuation in XLIFF placeholder breaks Angular application

[Chocobozzz]

Describe the issue

Weblate auto fixes (French) punctuation in a XLIFF placeholder where equiv-text is Angular code. Fixing the punctuation inside Angular code breaks the application.

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Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. Go on https://weblate.framasoft.org/translate/peertube/angular/fr_FR/?checksum=2ba6bdfd1d022e0b
2. See weblate tries to fix the string (<x id="INTERPOLATION" equiv-text="{{ dailyUserVideoQuota | bytes : 0 }}"/> par jour) into (<x id="INTERPOLATION" equiv-text="{{ dailyUserVideoQuota | bytes : 0 }}"/> par jour), which breaks the Angular application.

Expected behavior

Do not try to fix placeholders, or provide a way to ignore placeholders using a flag

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Weblate versions

Weblate 5.14.3

Weblate deploy checks

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[nijel]

Both the check and automatic fix-up currently do not handle this correctly.

• The check uses strip_format which does strip some formatting.
• The fix-up uses custom logic to handle rst-text only.

Instead, both should be based on weblate.checks.utils.highlight_string to properly skip all placeables.

PS: @gersona actually this might be an opportunity to convert all strip_format users to be based on the highlight_string.