# Invalid Format: SyntaxError: Expected "{" but "d" found
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/invalid-format-syntaxerror-expected-but-d-found/50796
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 28, 2016, 2:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invalid-format-syntaxerror-expected-but-d-found/50796 "2016-09-28T14:15:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@bonesoul](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bonesoul)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2016, 2:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invalid-format-syntaxerror-expected-but-d-found/50796/1 "2016-09-28T14:15:54Z")
my discourse installation shows these on my view topic pages within the suggested topics section.
any ideas?
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### Author:  [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2016, 2:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invalid-format-syntaxerror-expected-but-d-found/50796/2 "2016-09-28T14:29:06Z")
Do you have any non-official plugins installed?
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### Author:  [@bonesoul](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bonesoul)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2016, 2:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invalid-format-syntaxerror-expected-but-d-found/50796/3 "2016-09-28T14:56:44Z")
this is just a fresh install 🙂
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### Author:  [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2016, 2:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invalid-format-syntaxerror-expected-but-d-found/50796/4 "2016-09-28T14:59:56Z")
That’s an error in the translations. What language are you using?
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### Author:  [@bonesoul](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bonesoul)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2016, 3:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invalid-format-syntaxerror-expected-but-d-found/50796/5 "2016-09-28T15:22:02Z")
i’m using turkish. if you can point me to exact string, i can fix it & push a PR in github.
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2016, 3:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invalid-format-syntaxerror-expected-but-d-found/50796/6 "2016-09-28T15:28:24Z")
Translations are done on Transifex.
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### Author:  [@bonesoul](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bonesoul)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2016, 3:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invalid-format-syntaxerror-expected-but-d-found/50796/7 "2016-09-28T15:30:50Z")
but i don’t know which string is causing the problem yet.
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### Author:  [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2016, 5:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invalid-format-syntaxerror-expected-but-d-found/50796/8 "2016-09-28T17:01:06Z")
It’s probably `js.topic.read_more_MF`
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2019, 12:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invalid-format-syntaxerror-expected-but-d-found/50796/9 "2019-03-11T12:46:12Z")
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### Author:  [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2019, 12:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invalid-format-syntaxerror-expected-but-d-found/50796/10 "2019-03-11T12:55:09Z")
Searching for the string which is causing this error got a lot easier last year.
> [@How to check locale files for errors](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-check-locale-files-for-errors/96527):
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> Have you ever wondered why a translated string isn’t used by Discourse? Is Discourse [showing wrong numbers and dates](https://meta.discourse.org/t/incorrect-time-delta-on-post-ru-interface-only/83390) when a locale other than English is used? Are you seeing [“Invalid Format” errors](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-syntax-error-related-to-polish-language/96281) in some parts of Discourse? It’s quite likely that an error in some translations is causing those problems. There’s a rake task that lists all problems found for a specific locale. You can run it inside your Docker container as well as in your development environment by executing the following comman…
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### Author:  [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2019, 12:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invalid-format-syntaxerror-expected-but-d-found/50796/11 "2019-03-11T12:55:13Z")