[WG: I18N & L10N] The Properties Comparator

[Daniel Merino]

Hi everybody.

Last year we asked our grant, Eder Unzué, to make a web tool for 
comparing two given properties files, choosing the right property in 
each case and generating a new file with all them.

This program was intended to partially solve the huge effort needed to 
work with properties files, when a migration is done from an old Sakai 
version to a new one. This is specially hard when working with a 
language different of english, something we locally refer to as "The 
Properties Living Hell". ;-)

The tool is here: http://csie-server.unavarra.es:8080/TPC/

This tool just receives two properties files, shows an editable form 
with all the found differences and allows to download a new file with 
the modifications.

All the non-ASCII characters are transformed from/to Unicode (ej: ñ -> 
\u00F1) before comparing them, but if the source files has non-ASCII 
characters, the used encoding (UTF-8, ISO-8859-15, SHIFT_JIS, etc) must 
be specified. The downloaded file will have Unicode codes instead of 
non-ASCII characters.

If you want more details, a little help page is available in spanish and 
english.

This project is still a Beta version, but I think that could be useful 
for you and I would like to have your feedback in case you find it 
useful. It has GPL license and we will publish it in a near future, when 
is more mature.

Please, feel free to send me any suggestion or failure you find.

Thanks and best regards.
-- 
Daniel Merino Echeverría
daniel.merino at unavarra.es
Gestor de teleformación - Centro Superior de Innovación Educativa.
Tfno: 948-168489 - Universidad Pública de Navarra.