SUMO: Now ... in pirate!

, Will Kahn-Greene | share this (mastodon)
Note: This is an old post in a blog with a lot of posts over a long span of time. The world has changed, technologies have changed, and I've changed. It's likely this is out of date, the code doesn't work, the ideas haven't aged well, or the ideas were terrible to begin with. Let me know if you think this is something that needs updating.

A while back, I wrote a post about poxx.py which talked about a script I based on Ned Batchelder's poxx.py script and overhauled to provide a faux "Swedish Chef" translation of Miro strings allowing me to test localizations of the application.

The transform from English to "Swedish Chef" had the following four impotant properties:

  1. the output is vaguely readable

  2. the output is longer than the input which helps us find ui issues

  3. the output is clearly distinguished from English which helps us find strings that aren't getting translated

  4. the output is mildly amusing which is sometimes important in dark times

Back in August, I made some changes and pulled it into Fjord. This helped us suss out localization issues on a new site. However, I wasn't really happy with it. Amongst other things, it always felt like "Swedish Chef" was culturally insensitive.

A couple of weeks ago, I overhauled poxx.py again. This time, PIRATE! It continues to have the four properties I think are important for a test locale.

We're using it now for SUMO development. It's the grog to your Jolly Roger:

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SUMO -- In Pirate!

We're using this script on both SUMO and Fjord now. You can use it for your site, too! The code is at https://github.com/mozilla/kitsune/tree/master/scripts/.

If you see any problems with it, toss me a message in a bottle.

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