Re: [bug-gettext] A new option to msgen to make translations no longer identical?

[Alexander Potashev]

Hello,

In KDE there are automatically generated fake translations "x-test". It 
basically adds "xx" in the beginning and at the end of every string.

See the generator script "update_xx.sh" in the KDE SVN repo:
    http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/l10n-kde4/x-test/internal/

The following is one of the .po files from these fake translations:
http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/l10n-kde4/x-test/messages/kde-
baseapps/dolphin.po?view=markup

-- 
Alexander Potashev

On 23 августа 2012 18:33:25 Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm thinking of a way to generate a fake translation, so that
> developers can try it on the application themselves and see if they
> forget to mark some strings. Should we do that? (Or has anybody done
> it already?)
> 
> While the fake translation must not be identical to original strings,
> it should remain intelligible otherwise developers won't know how to
> control the applicaton. I'm thinking of changing just the letter case.
> For example, "this is an example" may become "tHiS iS aN eXamPle".
> Leetspeak [1] may be even better. If a command line app tries to test
> if a string is translated, changing  case only may get past "grep -i",
> leetspeak won't.
> 
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet