Modify all resource strings with a prefix to easily spot i18n or RTL issues

Question

I want to easily (ie: not manually touch every string) add a prefix to all of my resource strings, something like 'XXXSomeString', such that I can spot both non-localized strings (they won't have the prefix) or not RTL compatible forms (the prefix will be on the left).

Is there a tool to do this, or maybe a way to modify the resource code file to add the prefix when every string value is returned? Or if you have a better solution for this problem, I'd love to hear it.

Answer 1

There is a technique called pseudolocalization which does this. See this other question for existing tools that you can find for .NET: ASP.NET MVC pseudo-localization

Edit

To add to this in relation to your point about RTL (right-to-left), pseudolocalization can do this too, and in Windows there is a specific "Mirrored" pseudo-locale (named qps-plocm, where regular pseudo is qps-ploc), as per this MSDN page. I'm not aware of an existing publicly available tool to generate mirrored pseudolocalized resources though, but maybe I haven't looked hard enough.