I our projects we have a developer translations, that are translation written by the developer, that are late replaces by real translations made by professional translators. The translators use a demo system and periodically push new and updated translations into our repository.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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But in our system test we depend on the translation and we do not want our system test to break because the translators have pushed a new wording. That is why we let our automated system test run with the developer translations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But how should such a language tag look like for a devloper language? Tags like “de-DE” or “en-US” are used for the real translations and if we use some non exisiting tags like “de-DEV” some tools may break, because that is not a valid language Tag. For example in Java the method Local::forLanguageTag and Locale::toLanguageTag will not works with such tags. See:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
package de.nilsrudolph.blog;\n\nimport org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;\n\nimport java.util.Locale;\n\nimport static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;\n\npublic class LanguageTag {\n\n @Test\n public void testValidLanguageTag() {\n String validTag = \"de-DE\";\n assertEquals(Locale.forLanguageTag(validTag).toLanguageTag(), validTag);\n }\n\n @Test \/\/This one will fail\n public void testInvalidLanguageTag() {\n String invalidTag = \"de-DEV\";\n assertEquals(Locale.forLanguageTag(invalidTag).toLanguageTag(), invalidTag);\n }\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Out solution is to use a private extension. A private extension begins with the string “-x”. So that a tag for a developer language may look like “de-DE-x-dev” or “en-US-x-dev”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These tags then will work:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
package de.nilsrudolph.blog;\n\nimport org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;\n\nimport java.util.Locale;\n\nimport static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;\n\npublic class LanguageTag {\n\n @Test\n public void testValidLanguageTagWithPrivateExtension() {\n String validTag = \"de-DE-x-dev\";\n assertEquals(Locale.forLanguageTag(validTag).toLanguageTag(), validTag);\n }\n}\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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