Any ideas where I can find a list of international words that we can get our developers to use for test data when developing, so that errors are spotted early. I've googled/binged around but don't find anything useful.
I am thinking of a small list like
Joe Bloggs
Uta Straße
João Luís
but also include some Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Turkish (i18n says this good to test with, but provides no examples) etc.
As developers seeing this are unlikely to know every language, I'm thinking a small subset that can be recognised from being seen often, rather than testing every combo.
Why?
We have an (mainly) english language app, but end users enter names in their format, as you would expect, and we of course need to verify this works everywhere, our app, database engines, REST apis to partners, printing.
While we can test after coded, I think we would catch errors earlier/faster if developers were given test data to use while initially developing.
What I have tried:
I've spent a while googling/binging. Can find lots of advice about complete internationalisation, but not a good/small list of test data.
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