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Localization and formats

21 procedures covering date, time and timezone formatting, number and currency formatting, RTL layout, string expansion and truncation. Out of scope here: translation quality review, translation vendor workflow.

Encoding and Text

  • How to check for garbled characters from the wrong encoding8 min
  • How to check if a page is UTF-87 min
  • How to check JSON encoding6 min
  • How to check string length with emoji6 min
  • How to check the encoding of a CSV file6 min
  • How to check the encoding of a file6 min
  • How to test unicode input10 min

Dates and Numbers

  • How to change timezone in chrome for testing9 min
  • How to check the thousand separator and decimal separator6 min
  • How to test currency formatting8 min
  • How to test date format in different locales5 min
  • How to test daylight saving time7 min
  • How to test timezone handling6 min

Translations and Locale

  • How to change locale in chrome10 min
  • How to check accept language header8 min
  • How to check for missing translations9 min
  • How to check the browser locale6 min
  • How to test pluralization9 min

RTL and Layout

  • How to check if text is truncated8 min
  • How to test rtl layout9 min
  • How to test text expansion in translations8 min

Checkers for this area

  • Convert a timestamp across timezonesbrowser

Checklists

  • Localization testing checklist16 checks

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