--- /dev/null
+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+=head2 translate-templates.t
+
+This test verifies that all staff and OPAC template
+files can be processed by the string extractor
+without error; such errors usually indicate a
+construct that the extractor cannot parse.
+
+=cut
+
+use Test::More tests => 2;
+use File::Temp qw/tempdir/;
+use IPC::Open3;
+use File::Spec;
+use Symbol qw(gensym);
+
+my $po_dir = tempdir(CLEANUP => 1);
+
+chdir "misc/translator"; # for now, tmpl_process3.pl works only if run from its directory
+test_string_extraction("opac", "../../koha-tmpl/opac-tmpl/prog/en", $po_dir);
+test_string_extraction("intranet", "../../koha-tmpl/intranet-tmpl/prog/en", $po_dir);
+
+sub test_string_extraction {
+ my $module = shift;
+ my $template_dir = shift;
+ my $po_dir = shift;
+
+ my $command = "./tmpl_process3.pl create -i $template_dir -s $po_dir/$module.po -r --pedantic-warnings";
+
+ open (NULL, ">", File::Spec->devnull);
+ print NULL "foo"; # avoid warning;
+ my $pid = open3(gensym, ">&NULL", \*PH, $command);
+ my @warnings;
+ while (<PH>) {
+ # ignore some noise on STDERR
+ next if /^\.* done\.$/;
+ next if /^Warning: Can't determine original templates' charset/;
+ next if /^Warning: Charset Out defaulting to/;
+ next if /^Removing empty file /;
+ next if /^I UTF-8 O UTF-8 at /;
+ push @warnings, $_;
+ }
+ waitpid($pid, 0);
+
+ ok($#warnings == -1, "$module templates are translatable") or diag join("\n", @warnings, '');
+}