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Pseudoloc

Which strings on this page were never sent for translation?

Pseudo-localisation answers two questions at once and neither has any other cheap answer. A string that comes back unaccented was never routed through the translation layer; a button that breaks its container at forty per cent expansion will break it in German, Finnish or Russian. Both are visible in a single glance at the page.

Reach itPress ⌘+K on any tab and type pseudoloc.Ctrl+Kon Windows and Linux

Fakes a translation, so the layout breaks here rather than in German
readsthe page’s text nodes
writesan ephemeral text swap, undone on reload
sendsnothing
expansionabout 40%, which is the German case
localea stored record, shared with the page bar
previewthe page’s own transform, never a second one
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What this actually is

Before a site is localised, and before every release after that - a hard-coded string is the sort of regression that ships in a hurry and is found by a customer.

section#asked

Asked about this tool

Why is the text longer as well as accented?

Because the two failures are different. Accents find strings that skipped the translation layer; the extra length finds containers sized to English. A pseudo-locale that only accented would miss every truncation bug.

Does this change anything permanently?

No. It is a live edit like every other one here - Clear LoupeKit changes puts the copy back and a reload was always going to.

Why does the panel’s preview match the page exactly?

Because it calls the page’s own transform rather than reproducing it. Two implementations of a pseudo-locale is two answers to the same question.

Can I change the character set?

Yes, and the setting is one record read by the tool, the page bar’s card and the page itself - so all three always agree about which locale is running.

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