2016-11-16 13:43 GMT+01:00 Rafael Fontenelle <rafae...@gnome.org>: > > 2016-11-15 10:21 GMT-02:00 Ask Hjorth Larsen <asklar...@gmail.com>: >> >> Hi Rafael >> >> 2016-11-15 2:26 GMT+01:00 Rafael Fontenelle <rafae...@gnome.org>: >> >> > It would be nice to have a script with regexp that could compare msgstr >> > and >> > msgid in a PO file, and report strings that are not in compliance with >> > GNOME's HIG typography. I don't have such scripting skill, but if >> > someone >> > has it, please consider do it. >> > >> > Regards, >> > Rafael Fontenelle >> >> It is easy to recognize when the English string contains something, >> and the translated string does not (e.g. to find a unicode ellipsis >> that was translated to an ASCII ellipsis). But if the English string >> uses ASCII, it is not always easy. For example recognizing exactly >> when the en-dash could or should be used instead of an ASCII hyphen. >> >> It is probably a good assumption that any sequence of exactly three >> dots should be a unicode ellipsis, no matter the context, but that's >> the only trivial case. >> >> Best regards >> Ask > > > I agree that is not hard to recognize them while translating a PO file. I > just would like to have a solution that allows a conformity checking that > could be run anytime, as such Unicoded characters could be missed by the > translator (myself included). > > > Rafael Fontenelle
A simple conformity check: gtgrep -cn --msgstr '\.\.\.' filename.po I had a bit of a battle to get the regex escapes right in bash, but this should weed out most false positives: gtgrep -cn --msgstr '(?<!\.)\.\.\.(?!\.)' filename.po However if the translation uses "...." or ".." when it should really be using an ellipsis, the first form is better anyway, or maybe (?<!\.)\.{2,4}(?!\.). Probably it's best just to use the simple one :) (gtgrep comes from pyg3t) Something similar could be done for the other characters, but of course quotation marks vary a lot depending on language, so it would not all be completely portable to all languages. Best regards Ask _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n