diff --git a/tests/check_locale_format_consistency.py b/tests/check_locale_format_consistency.py
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+++ b/tests/check_locale_format_consistency.py
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+import re
+import json
+import glob
+
+locale_folder = "../locales/"
+locale_files = glob.glob(locale_folder + "*.json")
+locale_files = [filename.split("/")[-1] for filename in locale_files]
+locale_files.remove("en.json")
+
+reference = json.loads(open(locale_folder + "en.json").read())
+
+for locale_file in locale_files:
+
+    this_locale = json.loads(open(locale_folder + locale_file).read())
+
+    for key, string in reference.items():
+        if key in this_locale:
+
+            subkeys_in_ref = set(k[0] for k in re.findall(r"{(\w+)(:\w)?}", string))
+            subkeys_in_this_locale = set(k[0] for k in re.findall(r"{(\w+)(:\w)?}", this_locale[key]))
+
+            if any(key not in subkeys_in_ref for key in subkeys_in_this_locale):
+                print("\n")
+                print("==========================")
+                print("Format inconsistency for string %s in %s:" % (key, locale_file))
+                print("%s   -> %s " % ("en.json", string))
+                print("%s   -> %s " % (locale_file, this_locale[key]))
+