Re: Checking Translations (was: default text direction; mistranslations)

["Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds gmail com>]

On 7/26/06, Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org> wrote:
> Something I've been thinking about for a while is a system for
> checking translated strings.  Strings often have to conform to
> some syntax, whether it's selecting values from an enumeration,
> making a format string, writing well-formed XML, or whatever
> else.  In many of these cases, having incorrect translations
> can cause the program not to function correctly, or can break
> the build.
>
> So what if we had a way for developers to write tests for each
> string?  We could put those tests in a file in the po directory,
> and intltool could have a tool that would run them.  Translators
> would then be expected to check their translations before they
> commit.  We should also have 'make check' perform the tests on
> all languages.
>
> The tests could just be shell scripts, and we could keep them
> inside a special po file, like CHECKS.po.  Each string could
> be "translated" to a shell script.  That shell script would
> be run with the translated string on stdin or in an envar.
>
> One thing that would be useful is a global string that is
> always run first for each check.  This could be used to set
> some aliases that could be used throughout the checks.  Many
> modules will probably do the same check on a lot of strings.
>
> I love test frameworks.  Anybody up for it?
Extend http://gettext-lint.sourceforge.net/ ?