Bug#696833: ITP: i18nspector -- checking tool for gettext POT, PO and MO files

[Stuart Prescott <stuart@debian.org>]

> How does it compare with msgfmt? Translators usually use msgfmt to
> check for errors right now.

Indeed,... and a run of i18nspector over po files in the archive shows lots of 
problems. i18nspector tests much more than msgfmt -- it simply catches lots of 
problems that msgfmt misses. Perhaps the easiest thing to do is to show what 
the two tools say about a couple of random .po files I have here from another 
project:

$ msgfmt -c reports.po 
reports.po:7: header field `Project-Id-Version' still has the initial default 
value

$ i18nspector reports.po 
W: reports.po: boilerplate-in-project-id-version 'PACKAGE VERSION'
W: reports.po: invalid-last-translator 'Automatic <>'
W: reports.po: boilerplate-in-language-team 'LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>'
W: reports.po: unusual-character-in-translation U+009F control character APC: 
'Ã\x9f'

(where reports.po was UTF-8 encoded but the header claimed it to be 
ISO-8859-1)

cheers
Stuart

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