This probably a bad idea for odoo but is definitly a bad idea for pofile As shown in gettext reference, the spaces are used as separator in po files https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/PO-Files.html For instance #: src/msgcmp.c:338 src/po-lex.c:699 #, c-format msgid "found %d fatal error" msgstr "..." The line "model_terms:ir.ui.view,arch_db:website_sale.search count" was considered as two references: - 'model_terms:ir.ui.view,arch_db:website_sale.search' - 'count' Correct external id of fleet, even if not translatable