Feature request: Warn about length difference between translation and original

[lanurmi]

When the translated text is significantly shorter (or longer) than the original text, it would make sense to issue a warning about this. For example, let's say the original text contains a whole paragraph of text, yet the translation is two words – chances are something was left out by accident.

What is a 'significant' length difference is up to debate, but as a starting point for a heuristic I propose:

• Do not warn about msgid/msgstr pairs when both have length under 50 characters.
• In all other cases, warn if msgid is at least 3 times longer than msgstr (or vice versa).

[vslavik]

Feels like there’s a story behind this specific request...? Or do you encounter this situation regularly enough?

Anyway, this goes nicely with XLIFF minwidth/maxwidth that I got asked about the other day...