[bug-gettext] [bug #44098] Check strings for common problems

[Philip Withnall]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44098>

                 Summary: Check strings for common problems
                 Project: GNU gettext
            Submitted by: drbob
            Submitted on: Tue 27 Jan 2015 10:50:34 GMT
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

It would be interesting if gettext could optionally run some tests on strings
when it compiles a catalogue.

There are some here, written as a Makefile, but they could be ported to
gettext easily enough:

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~indicator-applet-developers/indicator-session/trunk.13.04/view/head:/tests/Makefile.am.strings

For example, they check that a Unicode ellipsis character has been used
instead of three periods in a row, that ASCII quotation marks aren’t used,
and that there are no spaces before ellipses.

These rules are somewhat style-specific, so should not be enabled for all
projects. Perhaps they could be enabled individually as a series of checker
options?

e.g.
msgfmt -Wunicode-ellipses -Wspace-before-ellipsis -Wascii-quotes …

This was originally a bug against gnome-common, but we decided it wasn’t the
right place to implement it:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=689602.




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