provide checking tool to flag possible errors in message translations
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Key: DERBY-2037
URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-2037
Project: Derby
Issue Type: Test
Components: Localization
Affects Versions: 10.3.0.0
Reporter: Myrna van Lunteren
Assigned To: Myrna van Lunteren
Priority: Minor
It would be useful to have a tool available that flags possible translation
file issues, such as:
- missing translations for (new) English messages
- mismatched parameters between English and non-English messages
- translation of keywords
- quoting problems (i.e. use of double quotes when single quotes should be
used, use of single quotes when double quotes should be used. This is based on
what's described in the MessageFormat api doc)
- mismatched characters such as < (when meaning smaller than), > (when meaning
larger than), % etc.
- identification of invalid characters, specifically characters in the range of
0x00-0x1f (which are ASCII) and 0x7f-0xff
Note that such a tool cannot be definite (except about the missing messages)
because the English messages are not following very strict formatting, and
because what's acceptable syntax/grammar in one language may not work in
another.
A discussion about a first cut at such a tool can be found at:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.apache.db.derby.devel/32187
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