Localization Checker

iOS & Mac projects localization checker.

This tool does the following checks for you:

• Scans localized folders (e.g. en.lproj) and checks if all of them contain the same files. This helps you detecting missing translation files.
• Tokenizes .strings files and compares with the files of the other translations. This test will detect missing translation keys.

Usage

Basic command to check multiple (can be more than 2) files:

php checker.php check:strings en.lproj/localizable.strings de.lproj/localizable.strings

The syntax of the files will be validated. And afterwards it is checked if all files contain the keys of en.proj/localizable.strings. The first file in the list will always be taken as the reference. I suggest you to supply the "original" language as the first argument.

Basic command to check multiple folders with .strings files:

php checker.php check:strings-folder en.lproj/ de.lproj/

All .strings files in the folder are searched. Then the tool will check if in all files are present in all folders. Again the first folder is taken as the reference. when that check was successful the tool will also check all the files using check:strings command to validate syntax and check if all keys are there.

Todo

• Add Screenshot to README
• Add options to disable specific tests

Further tests to add

• Check for empty values
• Check for keys whichs value is equal to the key (not yet translated)
• Compare number of placeholders
• Check for duplicated keys

Known Issues

• check:strings-folder command works only if all folders have trailing slashes.
• check:strings does not work with multiline translation values

Development

The following section describe things of the development process.

ctag Support

The repository contains a file called generate-ctags.sh. This will generate 2 ctag files (tags and vendor.tags), if you have exurbetant-ctags installed. These files help some editors with autocompletion, especially vim.