On 2025-Nov-19, Tom Lane wrote: > Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]> writes: > > On 19.11.25 04:15, Tom Lane wrote: > >> I think we should do it > >> honestly with a regression test. It doesn't need to be very > >> complicated --- I think checking one message in one translation is > >> sufficient, so long as it includes a PRI?64 usage. > > > We could generate an English message catalog that translates all > > messages unchanged, and run the whole test suite with that. This would > > exercise the whole gettext run-time machinery. > > ... except that if it were actually doing nothing whatsoever, you > could not tell.
You could feed the message catalog a translated string that differs from the original in some simple way, say, by adding a constant prefix "[translated]" or something like that. -- Álvaro Herrera PostgreSQL Developer — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
