[Server-devel] Using Moodle: Pseudolocales trick for i18n/l10n testing

[Martin Langhoff]

We care about l18n to non-latin languages more than most so I
"cross-pollinated" this idea to moodle.org -- and *already* hit a bug
:-)

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=107555#p472760

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From: Martín Langhoff <martin.langhoff at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 5:30 PM
Subject: Using Moodle: Pseudolocales trick for i18n/l10n testing
To: Martín Langhoff <martin.langhoff at gmail.com>



Using Moodle -> Forums -> General developer forum -> Pseudolocales trick for
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Pseudolocales trick for i18n/l10n testing
by Martín Langhoff - Monday, 6 October 2008, 04:59 PM
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There is an interesting thread on Fedora-dev, discussing how you can create a
ficticious locale with the strings transliterated from english to something
that looks a lot like the original latin chars.

(The full thread is at
http://marc.info/?l=fedora-devel-list&m=122292335718893&w=2 -- this post
borrows liberally from Sean Flanigan's email. Fedora has further complexities
with its many languages. Moodle can get away with a much simpler approach.)

So for example:

"I think we should make use of pseudo-locales to test Moodle."

"[!I ŧⱨîňⱪ ש

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