On Friday, February 20, 2015 at 6:34:07 PM UTC+1, Tom Tromey wrote: > >>>>> "Axel" == axel-4eJtQOnFJqFBDgjK7y7TUQ > >>>>> <axel-4ejtqonfjqfbdgjk7y7...@public.gmane.org> writes: > > Axel> We can only do this in the compiler if we actually compiled each > Axel> localized version by itself. > > Yes, I see what you mean. > > Axel> The other "easy" way to reduce impact here is to reduce the use of > Axel> nsTextFormatter, or create a replacement that doesn't crash. L20n > Axel> would be one, or maybe there's C++ template stuff that can "taint" > Axel> values with their original types. > > I don't think there is a compile-time solution to this part of problem, > because the substitution is done at runtime. > > I think what is needed for this problem is a runtime check to verify > that the translated format string is consistent with the "primary" one. > > Tom
I do this to validate the thinking that I've applied to compare-locales, which does source-based checks of localizations against en-US. With that tool, I can strip bad strings during repackaging or language pack building. That doesn't solve all problems, but gets use 90% there. Axel _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
