Preserve all punctuation as much as possible. If the source sentence includes several question marks, exclamation marks, dots etc. please copy this punctuation as is into the target.

• “@BetoORourke Well bless her heart…..” (copy all dots at the end of the sentence into the target)

Please copy over emojis directly into the translations.

• I love this game 😄 → me encanta este juego 😄

• pretty fun :) → muy divertido :)

If the source sentence uses an emoji to replace a word that is essential to the sentence meaning, then translate with the inferred word.

• My 🏠 is red should be translated as if the source were My house is red

Please copy incomplete emojis into the translations.

• Wer Lust hat soll mir einfach schreiben :- → If you feel like it, just write me :-

For general punctuation, use judgement based on the context. If the source is clearly multiple sentences and sounds very formal, it makes sense there to use capital letters where appropriate and include periods or question marks. If the source has enough intentional punctuation, correct any incorrect or missing ones.

However, if the text is very casual with a lot of emojis or context appropriate for social media, adding in proper punctuation would not be ideal, including capitalization. Less formal text should not have capitalization fixed, since it can be a person’s style to omit them.