2016-11-16 13:43 GMT+01:00 Rafael Fontenelle <[email protected]>:
>
> 2016-11-15 10:21 GMT-02:00 Ask Hjorth Larsen <[email protected]>:
>>
>> Hi Rafael
>>
>> 2016-11-15 2:26 GMT+01:00 Rafael Fontenelle <[email protected]>:
>>
>> > 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
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