Can I hook into pre_kses to translate stuff?

[Peter-HVD]

I've got some plugins (ACF, I'm specifically shaming you!) that don't pass their output through gettext, so even though I can enter the translated text (such as field labels, etc) in the usual [:en]xx[:fr]yy[:] format, it's not appearing on the page translated.

I looked through the ACF code and found that they're passing some of their untranslatable output through wp_kses, so that set me wondering if I could hook in to pre_kses to translate it myself.

So I added the below snippet and it seems to be working.

function pad_translate_additional_stuff(  $content, $allowed_html, $allowed_protocols ) {
	return apply_filters( 'translate_text', $content );
}
add_filter( 'pre_kses', 'pad_translate_additional_stuff', 100, 3 );

My question is, does anyone know of any reason why I shouldn't? Are there any instances where this approach - which is global by nature and can't be targeted to ACF output - might not be beneficial or could actually cause problems?

Cheers