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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use Cwd 'abs_path';
+
+# script which checks how out of sync the i18ns are drifting
+
+# example i18n format:
+#   "%(oneUser)sleft": "%(oneUser)sleft",
+
+$|=1;
+
+$0 =~ /^(.*\/)/;
+my $i18ndir = abs_path($1."/../src/i18n/strings");
+my $en = read_i18n($i18ndir."/en_EN.json");
+
+opendir(DIR, $i18ndir) || die $!;
+my @files = readdir(DIR);
+closedir(DIR);
+foreach my $lang (grep { -f "$i18ndir/$_" && !/en_EN\.json/ } @files) {
+    print "\nChecking $lang\n";
+
+    my $map = read_i18n($i18ndir."/".$lang);
+    my $count = 0;
+
+    foreach my $k (sort keys %$map) {
+        if ($en->{$k}) {
+            if ($map->{$k} eq $k) {
+                printf ("%10s %24s\t%s\n", $lang, "Untranslated string?", "$k");
+            }
+            $count++;
+        }
+        else {
+            if ($en->{$k . "."}) {
+                printf ("%10s %24s\t%s\n", $lang, "en_EN has fullstop!", "$k");
+                next;
+            }
+
+            $k =~ /^(.*)\.?$/;
+            if ($en->{$1}) {
+                printf ("%10s %24s\t%s\n", $lang, "en_EN lacks fullstop!", "$k");
+                next;
+            }
+
+            printf ("%10s %24s\t%s\n", $lang, "Not present in en_EN", "$k");
+        }
+    }
+
+    printf ("$count/" . (scalar keys %$en) . " strings translated\n");
+}
+
+sub read_i18n {
+    my $path = shift;
+    my $map = {};
+
+    open(FILE, "<", $path) || die $!;
+    while(<FILE>) {
+        if ($_ =~ m/^(\s+)"(.*?)"(: *)"(.*?)"(,?)$/) {
+            my ($indent, $src, $colon, $dst, $comma) = ($1, $2, $3, $4, $5);
+
+            $map->{$src} = $dst;
+        }
+    }
+    close(FILE);
+
+    return $map;
+}
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