On 2025-Nov-19, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> 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.
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