[Mediawiki-i18n] Pseudolocalization

[Niklas Laxström]

On 23 September 2010 00:59, Neil Kandalgaonkar <neilk at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Maybe I'm not being clear about what I would like to do. Something like
> this:
>
> The idea is to allow a developer to quickly see how their page might look in
> another language -- without learning that language, waiting for a
> translation, or otherwise involving anyone else.

> How we do this: in MediaWiki, we reserve the language xx-pseudo to mean
> pseudolocalization. If it is selected, instead of looking up the string in
> the appropriate message file, we look up the string in English and then
> apply a fast transform to swap certain characters and add padding. The only
> complicated part is making sure we don't affect embedded markup like
> {{PLURAL}}. It could be done in real time, without any stored message file.

You are going to have problems with messages like sidebar, mainpage
and others excepting certain kind of input.

 -Nikas


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Niklas Laxström