Translation catalog fixtures

gettext Template (messages.pot)

A gettext .pot template extracted from source — msgid entries with empty msgstr values, source-location comments, and a plural form — the starting point for a new language translation.

File: POT · Gettext
Use case: Localization catalogsInternationalization+1

gettext Catalog — Spanish (.po)

A translated gettext .po catalog (Spanish) with a full header, source-location and translator comments, c-format flags, and a plural-form entry — for testing PO parsers and translation-memory tools.

File: PO · Gettext · es
Use case: Localization catalogsInternationalization+1

XLIFF 1.2 (en → es)

An OASIS XLIFF 1.2 file with English source and Spanish target trans-units and notes — the classic interchange format between authoring tools and translation-management systems.

File: XLF · Xliff
Use case: Localization catalogsInternationalization+1· Conversion set

XLIFF 2.0 (en → es)

An OASIS XLIFF 2.0 file with the same content as its 1.2 twin, using the modern unit/segment structure — for testing XLIFF 2.0 parsers and 1.2-to-2.0 converters.

File: XLIFF · Xliff
Use case: Localization catalogsInternationalization+1· Conversion set

Apple .strings — English

An Apple Localizable.strings file (English) — quoted key = value pairs with comments and %@ placeholders, as iOS/macOS apps use per-locale in .lproj folders.

File: STRINGS · Apple · en
Use case: Localization catalogsInternationalization+1· Conversion set

Apple .strings — Spanish

The Spanish twin of the Apple .strings catalog — for testing .strings parsers and en/es diffing against the same keys.

File: STRINGS · Apple · es
Use case: Localization catalogsInternationalization+1· Conversion set

Flutter ARB — English

A Flutter Application Resource Bundle (English) — JSON messages with matching @key metadata (descriptions and typed placeholders) using ICU {name} syntax, as Flutter's gen-l10n consumes.

File: ARB · Flutter
Use case: Localization catalogsInternationalization+1· Conversion set

Flutter ARB — Spanish

The Spanish twin of the Flutter ARB bundle — for testing ARB parsers, the gen-l10n pipeline, and ICU placeholder handling.

File: ARB · Flutter
Use case: Localization catalogsInternationalization+1· Conversion set

Android strings.xml — English

An Android values/strings.xml (English) with string resources, a <plurals> block, and a <string-array>, using positional %1$s placeholders — the res/values/ default catalog.

File: XML · Android · en (values/)
Use case: Localization catalogsInternationalization+1· Conversion set

Android strings.xml — Spanish

The Spanish Android strings.xml (as res/values-es/) — for testing Android resource parsers, plurals, and string-array localization.

File: XML · Android · es (values-es/)
Use case: Localization catalogsInternationalization+1· Conversion set

.NET RESX — English

A .NET Resources.resx file (English) with the standard ResX schema and resheader block plus name/value string data and comments, using {0} composite-format placeholders.

File: RESX · Dotnet
Use case: Localization catalogsInternationalization+1· Conversion set

.NET RESX — Spanish

The Spanish satellite RESX (Resources.es.resx) — for testing .NET resource parsers and culture-based resource resolution against the same keys.

File: RESX · Dotnet
Use case: Localization catalogsInternationalization+1· Conversion set

i18next JSON — English

An i18next translation JSON (English) with {{name}} interpolation and an object-form plural (one/other) — the common React/Node i18n catalog shape.

File: JSON · I18next · en
Use case: Localization catalogsInternationalization+1· Conversion set

i18next JSON — Spanish

The Spanish i18next catalog twin — for testing i18next loaders, interpolation, and plural resolution against the same keys.

File: JSON · I18next · es
Use case: Localization catalogsInternationalization+1· Conversion set

i18next JSON — Arabic (RTL)

A right-to-left Arabic i18next catalog — real Arabic UI strings for testing bidirectional text handling, RTL layout, Unicode, and font fallback.

File: JSON · Rtl · ar
Use case: Localization catalogsInternationalization+1

i18next JSON — Hebrew (RTL)

A right-to-left Hebrew i18next catalog — real Hebrew UI strings for testing bidirectional text handling, RTL layout, Unicode, and font fallback.

File: JSON · Rtl · he
Use case: Localization catalogsInternationalization+1

i18next JSON — Japanese (CJK)

A Japanese (CJK) i18next catalog — real Japanese UI strings for testing CJK Unicode handling, wide-character layout, and font fallback.

File: JSON · Cjk · ja
Use case: Localization catalogsInternationalization+1

i18next JSON — Chinese (CJK)

A Chinese (CJK) i18next catalog — real Chinese UI strings for testing CJK Unicode handling, wide-character layout, and font fallback.

File: JSON · Cjk · zh
Use case: Localization catalogsInternationalization+1

TMX — UI Strings (en + FR/DE/PT-BR/KO)

A Translation Memory eXchange (TMX 1.4) file with English source and four target locales — for CAT tool and TMX parser tests.

File: TMX · Tmx
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs

i18next JSON Mini — fr

Minimal i18next-style JSON locale pack for fr.

File: JSON · I18next
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs

i18next JSON Mini — de

Minimal i18next-style JSON locale pack for de.

File: JSON · I18next
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs

i18next JSON Mini — pt-BR

Minimal i18next-style JSON locale pack for pt-BR.

File: JSON · I18next
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs

i18next JSON Mini — ko

Minimal i18next-style JSON locale pack for ko.

File: JSON · I18next
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs

Fluent (.ftl) — English

Mozilla Fluent SAMPLE catalog (English) with placeholders and plural select — for Fluent parsers and CAT tools.

File: FTL · Fluent
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1· Conversion set

Fluent (.ftl) — Spanish

Mozilla Fluent SAMPLE catalog (Spanish) with placeholders and plural select — for Fluent parsers and CAT tools.

File: FTL · Fluent
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1· Conversion set

Fluent (.ftl) — French

Mozilla Fluent SAMPLE catalog (French) with placeholders and plural select — for Fluent parsers and CAT tools.

File: FTL · Fluent
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1· Conversion set

Fluent (.ftl) — Arabic RTL

Mozilla Fluent SAMPLE catalog (Arabic RTL) with placeholders and plural select — for Fluent parsers and CAT tools.

File: FTL · Fluent
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1· Conversion set

Fluent (.ftl) — Hebrew RTL

Mozilla Fluent SAMPLE catalog (Hebrew RTL) with placeholders and plural select — for Fluent parsers and CAT tools.

File: FTL · Fluent
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1· Conversion set

Fluent (.ftl) — English US

Mozilla Fluent SAMPLE catalog (English US) with placeholders and plural select — for Fluent parsers and CAT tools.

File: FTL · Fluent
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1· Conversion set

ICU MessageFormat JSON — English

ICU MessageFormat SAMPLE JSON (English) with plural/select patterns for i18n runtimes.

File: JSON · Icu
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1· Conversion set

ICU MessageFormat JSON — Spanish

ICU MessageFormat SAMPLE JSON (Spanish) with plural/select patterns for i18n runtimes.

File: JSON · Icu
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1· Conversion set

ICU MessageFormat JSON — French

ICU MessageFormat SAMPLE JSON (French) with plural/select patterns for i18n runtimes.

File: JSON · Icu
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1· Conversion set

ICU MessageFormat JSON — Arabic

ICU MessageFormat SAMPLE JSON (Arabic) with plural/select patterns for i18n runtimes.

File: JSON · Icu
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1· Conversion set

ICU MessageFormat JSON — Hebrew

ICU MessageFormat SAMPLE JSON (Hebrew) with plural/select patterns for i18n runtimes.

File: JSON · Icu
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1· Conversion set

ICU MessageFormat JSON — German

ICU MessageFormat SAMPLE JSON (German) with plural/select patterns for i18n runtimes.

File: JSON · Icu
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1· Conversion set

ICU MessageFormat JSON — Japanese

ICU MessageFormat SAMPLE JSON (Japanese) with plural/select patterns for i18n runtimes.

File: JSON · Icu
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1· Conversion set

ICU MessageFormat JSON — Chinese

ICU MessageFormat SAMPLE JSON (Chinese) with plural/select patterns for i18n runtimes.

File: JSON · Icu
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1· Conversion set

ICU Plural + Selectordinal — English

English ICU plural and selectordinal SAMPLE catalogue for plural-rule engines.

File: JSON · Plural
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1· Conversion set

ICU Plural — Arabic (RTL)

Arabic RTL ICU plural SAMPLE covering zero/one/two/few/many/other categories.

File: JSON · Plural
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1· Conversion set

ICU Select Catalogue — English

ICU select SAMPLE for gender/status branching in message formatters.

File: JSON · Plural
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1· Conversion set

ICU Select — Hebrew (RTL)

Hebrew RTL ICU select SAMPLE for bidirectional UI string pipelines.

File: JSON · Plural
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1· Conversion set

RTL UI Pack — Arabic

Arabic RTL UI string pack SAMPLE for bidirectional layout and font-fallback tests.

File: JSON · Rtl
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1· Conversion set

RTL UI Pack — Hebrew

Hebrew RTL UI string pack SAMPLE for bidirectional layout and font-fallback tests.

File: JSON · Rtl
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1· Conversion set

RTL UI Pack — Arabic Egypt

Arabic Egypt RTL UI string pack SAMPLE for bidirectional layout and font-fallback tests.

File: JSON · Rtl
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1· Conversion set

RTL UI Pack — Hebrew Israel

Hebrew Israel RTL UI string pack SAMPLE for bidirectional layout and font-fallback tests.

File: JSON · Rtl
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1· Conversion set

RTL UI Pack — Persian

Persian RTL UI string pack SAMPLE for bidirectional layout and font-fallback tests.

File: JSON · Rtl
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1· Conversion set

RTL UI Pack — Urdu

Urdu RTL UI string pack SAMPLE for bidirectional layout and font-fallback tests.

File: JSON · Rtl
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1· Conversion set

Crowdin-Style Export — Spanish

Crowdin-shaped SAMPLE bilingual export JSON for localization TMS importers.

File: JSON · Crowdin · es
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1· Conversion set

Crowdin-Style Export — French

Crowdin-shaped SAMPLE French bilingual export for TMS round-trip tests.

File: JSON · Crowdin · fr
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1· Conversion set

Bilingual CSV — English→Spanish

Bilingual EN→ES CSV SAMPLE for spreadsheet-based localization workflows.

File: CSV · CSV · 4 rows
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1

Bilingual CSV — English→Arabic RTL

Bilingual EN→AR RTL CSV SAMPLE for spreadsheet CAT and RTL review tools.

File: CSV · CSV · 3 rows
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1

Multilingual CSV — EN/ES/FR/DE

Four-locale multilingual CSV SAMPLE for bulk translation import tests.

File: CSV · CSV · 3 rows
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1

Pseudolocalization Pack — en-XA

Pseudolocalization SAMPLE (bracket-wrapped) for i18n layout overflow testing.

File: JSON · Pseudo
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1

ICU MessageFormat JSON — IT Pad

Extra ICU MessageFormat SAMPLE locale (it) for catalog breadth.

File: JSON · Icu
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs· Conversion set

ICU MessageFormat JSON — NL Pad

Extra ICU MessageFormat SAMPLE locale (nl) for catalog breadth.

File: JSON · Icu
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs· Conversion set

ICU MessageFormat JSON — SV Pad

Extra ICU MessageFormat SAMPLE locale (sv) for catalog breadth.

File: JSON · Icu
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs· Conversion set

ICU MessageFormat JSON — PL Pad

Extra ICU MessageFormat SAMPLE locale (pl) for catalog breadth.

File: JSON · Icu
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs· Conversion set

ICU MessageFormat JSON — TR Pad

Extra ICU MessageFormat SAMPLE locale (tr) for catalog breadth.

File: JSON · Icu
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs· Conversion set

i18next Messages — DA SAMPLE

Minimal i18next SAMPLE catalog for locale da (greeting/save/cancel).

File: JSON · I18next
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs· Conversion set

i18next Messages — FI SAMPLE

Minimal i18next SAMPLE catalog for locale fi (greeting/save/cancel).

File: JSON · I18next
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs· Conversion set

i18next Messages — NB SAMPLE

Minimal i18next SAMPLE catalog for locale nb (greeting/save/cancel).

File: JSON · I18next
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs· Conversion set

i18next Messages — CS SAMPLE

Minimal i18next SAMPLE catalog for locale cs (greeting/save/cancel).

File: JSON · I18next
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs· Conversion set

i18next Messages — HU SAMPLE

Minimal i18next SAMPLE catalog for locale hu (greeting/save/cancel).

File: JSON · I18next
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs· Conversion set

i18next Messages — RO SAMPLE

Minimal i18next SAMPLE catalog for locale ro (greeting/save/cancel).

File: JSON · I18next
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs· Conversion set

i18next Messages — UK SAMPLE

Minimal i18next SAMPLE catalog for locale uk (greeting/save/cancel).

File: JSON · I18next
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs· Conversion set

i18next Messages — EL SAMPLE

Minimal i18next SAMPLE catalog for locale el (greeting/save/cancel).

File: JSON · I18next
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs· Conversion set

i18next Messages — HE SAMPLE

Minimal i18next SAMPLE catalog for locale he (greeting/save/cancel).

File: JSON · I18next
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs· Conversion set

i18next Messages — AR SAMPLE

Minimal i18next SAMPLE catalog for locale ar (greeting/save/cancel).

File: JSON · I18next
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs· Conversion set

i18next Messages — TH SAMPLE

Minimal i18next SAMPLE catalog for locale th (greeting/save/cancel).

File: JSON · I18next
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs· Conversion set

i18next Messages — VI SAMPLE

Minimal i18next SAMPLE catalog for locale vi (greeting/save/cancel).

File: JSON · I18next
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs· Conversion set

i18next Messages — ID SAMPLE

Minimal i18next SAMPLE catalog for locale id (greeting/save/cancel).

File: JSON · I18next
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs· Conversion set

i18next Messages — MS SAMPLE

Minimal i18next SAMPLE catalog for locale ms (greeting/save/cancel).

File: JSON · I18next
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs· Conversion set

i18next Messages — KO SAMPLE

Minimal i18next SAMPLE catalog for locale ko (greeting/save/cancel).

File: JSON · I18next
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs· Conversion set

i18next Messages — HI SAMPLE

Minimal i18next SAMPLE catalog for locale hi (greeting/save/cancel).

File: JSON · I18next
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs· Conversion set

Plural Forms — EN SAMPLE

CLDR-style SAMPLE plural forms for locale en (items key).

File: JSON · Plural
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs· Conversion set

Plural Forms — PL SAMPLE

CLDR-style SAMPLE plural forms for locale pl (items key).

File: JSON · Plural
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs· Conversion set

Plural Forms — RU SAMPLE

CLDR-style SAMPLE plural forms for locale ru (items key).

File: JSON · Plural
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs· Conversion set

Plural Forms — AR SAMPLE

CLDR-style SAMPLE plural forms for locale ar (items key).

File: JSON · Plural
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs· Conversion set

ICU MessageFormat — Nested select/plural (English)

English ICU MessageFormat catalog whose messages nest a select inside a plural branch and a plural inside a select branch, shipped with the argument bindings and the exact output each one must produce. Includes the '#' binding trap: inside a nested plural, '#' refers to the inner argument, so the outer count is written explicitly.

File: JSON · Icu
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1· Conversion set

ICU MessageFormat — Nested select/plural (Arabic)

Arabic ICU MessageFormat catalog whose messages nest a select inside a plural branch and a plural inside a select branch, shipped with the argument bindings and the exact output each one must produce. Includes the '#' binding trap: inside a nested plural, '#' refers to the inner argument, so the outer count is written explicitly.

File: JSON · Icu
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1· Conversion set

ICU MessageFormat — Nested select/plural (Polish)

Polish ICU MessageFormat catalog whose messages nest a select inside a plural branch and a plural inside a select branch, shipped with the argument bindings and the exact output each one must produce. Includes the '#' binding trap: inside a nested plural, '#' refers to the inner argument, so the outer count is written explicitly.

File: JSON · Icu
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1· Conversion set

ICU MessageFormat — Plural offset (English)

The 'Rana and 5 others like this' pattern: ICU plural arguments with offset:1 and offset:2, where the explicit =0/=1/=2 selectors match the RAW value but '#' prints the value MINUS the offset. Ships every boundary case with its expected output.

File: JSON · Icu
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1

ICU selectordinal — English ordinal suffixes

English st/nd/rd/th suffixes done properly, via ICU selectordinal rather than a hand-written switch. The case list covers the teens (11th, 12th, 13th) and the wrap-around (21st, 102nd, 111th) that a naive n % 10 lookup gets wrong.

File: JSON · Icu
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1

ICU Plural-Category Probe — Welsh (six categories, both kinds)

Welsh is the only CLDR locale that uses all six plural categories for cardinals AND all six for ordinals, which makes it the strongest single probe for a plural-rule engine. Each branch names its own category so the assertion is about selection, not wording, and the two rule sets disagree for n = 4, 5, 7, 8 and 9.

File: JSON · Icu · Welsh
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1

ICU MessageFormat — Apostrophe and brace quoting

The quoting rules that make ICU messages surprising: a single quote starts a literal section only when the next character is one ICU cares about, a doubled '' is always one apostrophe, and '#' inside a plural branch is a literal hash. Every message is paired with the exact string it must produce.

File: JSON · Icu
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1

Java ResourceBundle .properties — English

A English Java ResourceBundle with MessageFormat patterns, a ChoiceFormat plural, positional arguments, escaped braces and apostrophes, a backslash line continuation, and non-ASCII carried as \uXXXX escapes because .properties is defined as ISO-8859-1. The bytes on disk are pure ASCII.

File: PROPERTIES · Icu · ISO-8859-1, non-ASCII written as \uXXXX escapes
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+2· Conversion set

Java ResourceBundle .properties — German

A German Java ResourceBundle with MessageFormat patterns, a ChoiceFormat plural, positional arguments, escaped braces and apostrophes, a backslash line continuation, and non-ASCII carried as \uXXXX escapes because .properties is defined as ISO-8859-1. The bytes on disk are pure ASCII.

File: PROPERTIES · Icu · ISO-8859-1, non-ASCII written as \uXXXX escapes
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+2· Conversion set

CLDR Plural Rules — Arabic (6 categories)

Arabic CLDR cardinal and ordinal plural rules with the exact integer samples that select each category, the equivalent gettext Plural-Forms expression, and a note on the trap the language exposes: a catalog written with only one/other silently renders 'many' counts (11-99) with the singular noun form.

File: JSON · Cldr · Arabic
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1· Conversion set

CLDR Plural Rules — Welsh (6 categories)

Welsh CLDR cardinal and ordinal plural rules with the exact integer samples that select each category, the equivalent gettext Plural-Forms expression, and a note on the trap the language exposes: welsh is the only cldr locale using all six categories for both cardinals and ordinals, and its categories are enumerations (3, 6) rather than modulo ranges — a rule engine that assumes 'few' means a range fails here.

File: JSON · Cldr · Welsh
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1· Conversion set

CLDR Plural Rules — Polish (4 categories)

Polish CLDR cardinal and ordinal plural rules with the exact integer samples that select each category, the equivalent gettext Plural-Forms expression, and a note on the trap the language exposes: cldr gives polish four categories but the traditional gettext header gives it three — gettext folds cldr 'many' and 'other' together because its rule takes an integer n and never sees v.

File: JSON · Cldr · Polish
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1· Conversion set

CLDR Plural Rules — Russian (4 categories)

Russian CLDR cardinal and ordinal plural rules with the exact integer samples that select each category, the equivalent gettext Plural-Forms expression, and a note on the trap the language exposes: 1 and 21 take the same form but 11 does not; a naive n==1 check gets 21 wrong.

File: JSON · Cldr · Russian
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1· Conversion set

CLDR Plural Rules — English (2 categories)

English CLDR cardinal and ordinal plural rules with the exact integer samples that select each category, the equivalent gettext Plural-Forms expression, and a note on the trap the language exposes: '1.

File: JSON · Cldr · English
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1· Conversion set

CLDR Plural Rules — Japanese (1 category)

Japanese CLDR cardinal and ordinal plural rules with the exact integer samples that select each category, the equivalent gettext Plural-Forms expression, and a note on the trap the language exposes: japanese needs exactly one form; a pipeline that requires a 'one' key produces a catalog no japanese translator can fill in meaningfully.

File: JSON · Cldr · Japanese
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1· Conversion set

CLDR Plural-Category Matrix — six languages

One row per language, one column per CLDR plural category, filled with the smallest integers that select it — the sheet to hand a translator or a PM when explaining why 'one' and 'other' is not enough. Japanese needs one form and Welsh needs six.

File: CSV · Cldr · 6 rows
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1

gettext PO with Plural-Forms — Polish (nplurals=3)

A Polish gettext catalog with a real Plural-Forms header and 3 msgstr[] forms per plural entry, source-location and extracted comments, and c-format flags. Pairs with the compiled .mo of the same content, so a loader can be tested end to end rather than on the text format alone.

File: PO · Gettext · Polish
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs· Paired fixture

gettext PO with Plural-Forms — Russian (nplurals=3)

A Russian gettext catalog with a real Plural-Forms header and 3 msgstr[] forms per plural entry, source-location and extracted comments, and c-format flags. Pairs with the compiled .mo of the same content, so a loader can be tested end to end rather than on the text format alone.

File: PO · Gettext · Russian
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs· Paired fixture

gettext PO with Plural-Forms — Arabic (nplurals=6)

A Arabic gettext catalog with a real Plural-Forms header and 6 msgstr[] forms per plural entry, source-location and extracted comments, and c-format flags. Pairs with the compiled .mo of the same content, so a loader can be tested end to end rather than on the text format alone.

File: PO · Gettext · Arabic
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs· Paired fixture

gettext PO with Plural-Forms — Welsh (nplurals=6)

A Welsh gettext catalog with a real Plural-Forms header and 6 msgstr[] forms per plural entry, source-location and extracted comments, and c-format flags. Pairs with the compiled .mo of the same content, so a loader can be tested end to end rather than on the text format alone.

File: PO · Gettext · Welsh
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs· Paired fixture

gettext PO — fuzzy, obsolete and untranslated entries

A German catalog carrying every state a PO entry can be in but the happy one: two fuzzy entries (one of them a plural) with #| previous-msgid comments, an entry that is present but untranslated, three obsolete #~ entries including an obsolete plural and an obsolete msgctxt entry, and two complete entries as the control.

File: PO · Gettext · German
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1

gettext PO — msgctxt disambiguation and multi-line strings

The English word "Open" translated four different ways in one file — three msgctxt variants plus the context-free entry — alongside a multi-line msgid that must be concatenated with no separator, a no-c-format entry whose %% is literal text, and explicit tab and quote escapes with a significant trailing space.

File: PO · Gettext · French
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1

XLIFF 1.2 — Plurals (en to pl)

The XLIFF 1.2 half of a version twin covering how each version expresses a plural group. XLIFF 1.2 uses a <group restype="x-gettext-plurals"> whose trans-units are ordered by gettext form index; XLIFF 2.0 dropped restype, so the same content becomes one <unit> per CLDR category, named by category rather than by index.

File: XLF · Xliff
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs· Paired fixture

XLIFF 2.0 — Plurals (en to pl)

The XLIFF 2.0 half of a version twin covering how each version expresses a plural group. XLIFF 1.2 uses a <group restype="x-gettext-plurals"> whose trans-units are ordered by gettext form index; XLIFF 2.0 dropped restype, so the same content becomes one <unit> per CLDR category, named by category rather than by index.

File: XLIFF · Xliff
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs· Paired fixture

XLIFF 1.2 — Inline codes (en to de)

The XLIFF 1.2 half of a version twin covering how each version represents inline markup and placeholders. XLIFF 1.2 keeps the original markup inline in <bpt>/<ept> and uses <g>, <x/> and <ph>; XLIFF 2.0 replaced all of them with <pc>, <ph/>, <sc/>/<ec/> and moved the markup into an <originalData> block referenced by id.

File: XLF · Xliff
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs· Paired fixture

XLIFF 2.0 — Inline codes (en to de)

The XLIFF 2.0 half of a version twin covering how each version represents inline markup and placeholders. XLIFF 1.2 keeps the original markup inline in <bpt>/<ept> and uses <g>, <x/> and <ph>; XLIFF 2.0 replaced all of them with <pc>, <ph/>, <sc/>/<ec/> and moved the markup into an <originalData> block referenced by id.

File: XLIFF · Xliff
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs· Paired fixture

XLIFF 1.2 — Translation state (en to es)

The XLIFF 1.2 half of a version twin covering how each version records translation progress. XLIFF 1.2 has approved="yes|no" plus a ten-value target state; XLIFF 2.0 removed approved and cut the vocabulary to four ordered values (initial, translated, reviewed, final) with everything else pushed into a namespaced subState.

File: XLF · Xliff
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs· Paired fixture

XLIFF 2.0 — Translation state (en to es)

The XLIFF 2.0 half of a version twin covering how each version records translation progress. XLIFF 1.2 has approved="yes|no" plus a ten-value target state; XLIFF 2.0 removed approved and cut the vocabulary to four ordered values (initial, translated, reviewed, final) with everything else pushed into a namespaced subState.

File: XLIFF · Xliff
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs· Paired fixture

Android <plurals> — English (2 quantities)

English Android quantity strings: 4 <plurals> blocks with an <item> for each of the 2 CLDR quantities en actually selects. Rename to plurals.xml and drop into res/values/ to use it as-is.

File: XML · Android
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs· Conversion set

Android <plurals> — Polish (4 quantities)

Polish Android quantity strings: 4 <plurals> blocks with an <item> for each of the 4 CLDR quantities pl actually selects. Rename to plurals.xml and drop into res/values-pl/ to use it as-is.

File: XML · Android
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs· Conversion set

Android <plurals> — Arabic (6 quantities)

Arabic Android quantity strings: 4 <plurals> blocks with an <item> for each of the 6 CLDR quantities ar actually selects. Rename to plurals.xml and drop into res/values-ar/ to use it as-is.

File: XML · Android
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs· Conversion set

Android <plurals> — Welsh (6 quantities)

Welsh Android quantity strings: 4 <plurals> blocks with an <item> for each of the 6 CLDR quantities cy actually selects. Rename to plurals.xml and drop into res/values-cy/ to use it as-is.

File: XML · Android
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs· Conversion set

Android <plurals> — Japanese (1 quantities)

Japanese Android quantity strings: 4 <plurals> blocks with an <item> for each of the 1 CLDR quantities ja actually selects. Rename to plurals.xml and drop into res/values-ja/ to use it as-is.

File: XML · Android
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs· Conversion set

Android strings.xml — escaping, xliff:g and markup rules

Every escaping rule aapt2 enforces on a strings.xml, in one file: backslash-escaped apostrophes and quotes, quoted values that preserve leading whitespace, an escaped @ and ?, CDATA-wrapped inline HTML, <xliff:g> placeholder protection with examples, formatted="false", translatable="false" and a scoped tools:ignore.

File: XML · Android
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1

Apple .stringsdict — English (2 rules)

English Apple plural rules as a .stringsdict property list — the only place iOS and macOS accept plural variants, since a plain .strings file has no plural concept at all. Ships as .xml because the bytes are an XML plist; rename to Localizable.stringsdict to use it.

File: XML · Apple
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs· Conversion set

Apple .stringsdict — Arabic (6 rules)

Arabic Apple plural rules as a .stringsdict property list — the only place iOS and macOS accept plural variants, since a plain .strings file has no plural concept at all. Ships as .xml because the bytes are an XML plist; rename to Localizable.stringsdict to use it.

File: XML · Apple
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs· Conversion set

Apple .stringsdict — Polish (4 rules)

Polish Apple plural rules as a .stringsdict property list — the only place iOS and macOS accept plural variants, since a plain .strings file has no plural concept at all. Ships as .xml because the bytes are an XML plist; rename to Localizable.stringsdict to use it.

File: XML · Apple
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs· Conversion set

Apple .stringsdict — Welsh (6 rules)

Welsh Apple plural rules as a .stringsdict property list — the only place iOS and macOS accept plural variants, since a plain .strings file has no plural concept at all. Ships as .xml because the bytes are an XML plist; rename to Localizable.stringsdict to use it.

File: XML · Apple
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs· Conversion set

Apple .stringsdict — Russian (4 rules)

Russian Apple plural rules as a .stringsdict property list — the only place iOS and macOS accept plural variants, since a plain .strings file has no plural concept at all. Ships as .xml because the bytes are an XML plist; rename to Localizable.stringsdict to use it.

File: XML · Apple
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs· Conversion set

Apple .strings — positional arguments that reorder (German)

A German .strings file whose replace_confirm value puts %2$@ before %1$@, because German inverts the pair English uses. Also covers %% as a literal percent, an escaped double quote, a doubled-backslash UNC path and an escaped newline inside a value.

File: STRINGS · Apple · UTF-8
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs· Conversion set

Apple .strings — UTF-16 LE with BOM (Japanese)

The encoding fixture the .strings format needs: a Japanese catalog written as UTF-16 Little Endian with a byte-order mark, which is what Xcode has historically produced and what a UTF-8-only reader turns into mojibake or a decode error. Also carries full-width punctuation and an ideographic space for width and line-breaking tests.

File: STRINGS · Apple · UTF-16 LE
Use case: InternationalizationEncoding detection+1· Conversion set

Flutter ARB — ICU plurals and typed placeholders (English)

A English ARB whose plural messages carry an ICU branch for each of the 2 categories en selects, plus a select message and a summary line with typed placeholders — int with compactLong, and a DateTime with a yMMMd format — which is what makes gen_l10n emit a typed Dart method rather than a plain string.

File: ARB · Flutter
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1· Conversion set

Flutter ARB — ICU plurals and typed placeholders (Arabic)

A Arabic ARB whose plural messages carry an ICU branch for each of the 6 categories ar selects, plus a select message and a summary line with typed placeholders — int with compactLong, and a DateTime with a yMMMd format — which is what makes gen_l10n emit a typed Dart method rather than a plain string.

File: ARB · Flutter
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1· Conversion set

Flutter ARB — ICU plurals and typed placeholders (Polish)

A Polish ARB whose plural messages carry an ICU branch for each of the 4 categories pl selects, plus a select message and a summary line with typed placeholders — int with compactLong, and a DateTime with a yMMMd format — which is what makes gen_l10n emit a typed Dart method rather than a plain string.

File: ARB · Flutter
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1· Conversion set

Flutter ARB — ICU plurals and typed placeholders (Welsh)

A Welsh ARB whose plural messages carry an ICU branch for each of the 6 categories cy selects, plus a select message and a summary line with typed placeholders — int with compactLong, and a DateTime with a yMMMd format — which is what makes gen_l10n emit a typed Dart method rather than a plain string.

File: ARB · Flutter
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1· Conversion set

.NET RESX — composite format strings (English (United States))

A English (United States) resource file built around composite format strings — {0:N2}, {2:P1}, {0:C}, {0:d} and {0:t} — whose rendered output depends entirely on CultureInfo. Includes a whitespace-significant resource guarded by xml:space, and documents the suffixed-key convention .NET falls back on because String.Format has no plural selector.

File: RESX · Dotnet
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1· Conversion set

.NET RESX — composite format strings (German (Germany))

A German (Germany) resource file built around composite format strings — {0:N2}, {2:P1}, {0:C}, {0:d} and {0:t} — whose rendered output depends entirely on CultureInfo. Includes a whitespace-significant resource guarded by xml:space, and documents the suffixed-key convention .NET falls back on because String.Format has no plural selector.

File: RESX · Dotnet
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1· Conversion set

.NET RESX — composite format strings (Arabic (Egypt))

A Arabic (Egypt) resource file built around composite format strings — {0:N2}, {2:P1}, {0:C}, {0:d} and {0:t} — whose rendered output depends entirely on CultureInfo. Includes a whitespace-significant resource guarded by xml:space, and documents the suffixed-key convention .NET falls back on because String.Format has no plural selector.

File: RESX · Dotnet
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1· Conversion set

.NET RESX — composite format strings (Polish (Poland))

A Polish (Poland) resource file built around composite format strings — {0:N2}, {2:P1}, {0:C}, {0:d} and {0:t} — whose rendered output depends entirely on CultureInfo. Includes a whitespace-significant resource guarded by xml:space, and documents the suffixed-key convention .NET falls back on because String.Format has no plural selector.

File: RESX · Dotnet
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1· Conversion set

Unicode Bidi Controls — LRM, RLM, ALM, isolates and embeddings

A reference sheet in which each of the ten shipped bidi control characters appears literally between ASCII guards, with its code point, UTF-8 bytes and the job it does. The two override characters are named but deliberately absent: a bidi rendering fixture does not need to ship the Trojan Source vector.

File: TXT · Bidi · UTF-8
Use case: InternationalizationEncoding detection+1· Conversion set

Bidi — where a mark is actually required (Arabic)

Six Arabic sentences containing a Latin filename, a phone number, a version range, a mixed-script path, a percentage and a bracketed insertion — each shown first as a translator usually delivers it and then with the one invisible character that makes it render correctly. The two forms differ by exactly one code point.

File: TXT · Bidi · UTF-8
Use case: InternationalizationEncoding detection+1· Conversion set

Bidi — bracket mirroring in RTL paragraphs (Hebrew and Arabic)

Mirroring is a rendering property of the bidi algorithm, not a transformation of the text: a U+0028 LEFT PARENTHESIS inside an RTL run is DRAWN as ')' while the stored byte never changes. These Hebrew and Arabic lines make that testable, and list the neutral characters that look like they should mirror but do not.

File: TXT · Bidi · UTF-8
Use case: InternationalizationEncoding detection+1· Conversion set

HTML Bidi — dir=auto, <bdi> and a scoped <bdo>

The HTML half of bidi handling: paragraphs with dir=ltr, dir=rtl and dir=auto, the same user-supplied string with and without a <bdi> wrapper, one balanced <bdo> showing display override scoped to a single element, and explicit RLM/FSI marks inside markup. No scripts and no external resources.

File: HTML · Bidi · UTF-8
Use case: InternationalizationHTML parsing+1

Bidi Isolates — UI templates for user-supplied names

Three notification templates in English, Arabic and Hebrew, each given raw and with every interpolation slot wrapped in FSI…PDI, plus four argument sets covering an LTR name in an RTL sentence, an RTL name in an LTR sentence and a name beginning with a neutral character. This is the fixture for the bug where a display name reorders the sentence around it.

File: JSON · Bidi · UTF-8
Use case: InternationalizationLocalization catalogs+1

Bidi Test-Case Matrix — eight rendering cases

A flat index of the bidi cases in this wave — which mark each one uses, what it should render as, and why the neutral characters involved need help. Row b8 is the control case with no marks, against which the other seven are compared.

File: CSV · Bidi · 8 rows
Use case: InternationalizationCSV parsing+1

Locale Date and Time Patterns — ten locales (CSV)

Short and medium date patterns, the short time pattern and the hour cycle for ten locales, each with the rendering of 2026-03-14T09:05. The ar-EG patterns contain U+200F between their fields and ru-RU's medium pattern ends in a quoted literal, so neither is the plain ASCII it appears to be.

File: CSV · Formatting · 10 rows
Use case: InternationalizationCSV parsing+1· Conversion set

Locale Date and Time Patterns — with the four classic traps (JSON)

The structured date table plus the four traps worth their own test: day/month ambiguity in short dates, the RLM embedded in CLDR's Arabic pattern, quoted literal text inside the Russian pattern, and the localized day-period marker that a 12-hour formatter must not drop.

File: JSON · Formatting
Use case: InternationalizationJSON parsing+1· Conversion set

Locale Separator and Digit Characters — literal specimens

Every separator, sign and digit set a locale-aware formatter has to survive, each present literally between ASCII guards: the no-break and narrow-no-break spaces, de-CH's U+2019 group separator, the Arabic decimal and thousands separators, the four numbering systems' digits, and CLDR's U+2212 MINUS SIGN, which is not the ASCII hyphen.

File: TXT · Formatting · UTF-8
Use case: InternationalizationEncoding detection+1

Non-Gregorian Calendar Eras — Japanese, ROC, Buddhist, Hijri, Hebrew

Era and era-year for one instant across five calendar systems. The three whose months and days align with the Gregorian calendar — Japanese (Reiwa 8), ROC (Minguo 115) and Thai Buddhist (2569) — carry a full rendered date; the Hijri and Hebrew entries carry the year only, because their day and month depend on the calculation variant and, for Hijri, on observation. Saying so is the point of the fixture.

File: JSON · Formatting
Use case: InternationalizationJSON parsing+1