# HTML tags in plaintext digest when missing a translation

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/html-tags-in-plaintext-digest-when-missing-a-translation/68151>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Tags:** activity-summary\
**Created:** [August 16, 2017, 11:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/html-tags-in-plaintext-digest-when-missing-a-translation/68151 "2017-08-16T11:36:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![neil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/neil/32/102150_2.png) [@neil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neil)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2020, 9:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/html-tags-in-plaintext-digest-when-missing-a-translation/68151/7 "2020-01-28T21:38:02Z")

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The path that email notifications goes through changed last year, which might have fixed this? I deleted some french translations and can see the text version of the digest is using english where french strings are missing, and there’s no span html.

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