Wrong translation in Spanish about biblatex

[moewew]

I don't think it would be unreasonable to change this on the biblatex-ieee side especially given that the style does change the English localisation string here and has a dedicated .lbx file for Hungarian (so there is precedent for localisation apart from English). But I can see that it might be difficult to implement translations of a style that is inherently linked to English-language publications.

In any case, I don't think we can change anything in the core without breaking backwards compatibility, so I'm going to close this.

[moewew]

IEEE requirements aside for a moment: Is dirección the obviously wrong thing to put in front of the URL in Spanish?

The core biblatex .lbx files have to choose one translation when translating strings and of course that style may not always work for all styles, so it is not unexpected that you may have to change a couple of translations in order to conform with certain requirements. Case in point: biblatex-ieee changes the English version of a couple of strings as well

https://github.com/josephwright/biblatex-ieee/blob/7f67eea42f55ee0c27c8358dd7cd64bf47ad4a4c/ieee.bbx#L67-L79

even the url string.

But it would break backwards compatibility pretty badly if we were to change between several possible translations willy-nilly. So there has to be a good reason to do that.

Finally, the core biblatex translations for url never contain a string like "[online]", so I don't want to add that just for Spanish, because that would make this translation inconsistent with all other languages.

[Ivan-Brigidano]

Is dirección the obviously wrong thing to put in front of the URL in Spanish?

No, dirección is a perfectly correct translation. Only that it doesn't comply with IEEE standards. But reading your explanation I guess that the easiest solution will be to continue using the workaround I mentioned previously. Thanks!