Re: [l10n-dev] Re: [qa-dev] switching to XLIFF

[Clytie Siddall]

I'm responding to both Ain and Hristo in this mail.

On 18/08/2007, at 4:00 PM, Ain Vagula wrote:

Saturday 18 August 2007 09:25:14 kirjutas Clytie Siddall:

On 18/08/2007, at 9:59 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:

On Aug 17, 2007, at 10:28 PM, Clytie Siddall wrote:

I have submitted this as an issue:

http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=80789

Please add your comments and the benefit of your experience. :)

Thanks for the effort CLytie. I just added a comment. I hope that
will help.

Question: will Pootle be able to handle an XLIFF based workflow ?

Converting to XLIFF is a major milestone on Pootle's roadmap. It's an
essential change, to make Pootle an effective part of the future of
i18n.

Dwayne, what's the timeline now on making XLIFF the basis for Pootle? :)

GNU Translation Project, when these projects will use XLIFF as native

too. :)

It is interesting also, what is timeline for KDE, GNOME and just reanimated translation format? And of course for various Linux distribution base systems

Hristo said:

The main translation projects have talked about XLIFF as the format of the future. It's a big change, and won't occur overnight. After all, KDE has only just started supporting gettext plurals. ;) In a sense, everyone is waiting for someone else to do something about it. Pootle sets a good example: once it has an effective XLIFF base, the projects using it will be able to trial using XLIFF. But as you would know, it's also a matter of contributed time and effort. I'm going to trial XLIFF for OpenOffice.org on Pootle, then I will have some feedback for the other projects.

Can you tell me good editors for this translation format. For Linux and

Windows.

Hmm, quick search for other XLIFF editors...

XLIFF Editor at SF, for both Linux and Windows.

WinPedit, Multilizer, Passolo, Sisulizer, Araya for Windows.

Esperantilo for both Windows and X11.







I hope that is useful. :)


http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN

For free software, I know the Kbabel developers have been working on XLIFF, and the Pootling offline editor (Javier, is it beta yet?) is based on XLIFF. Both of those are Linux and Windows editors. PoEdit development has been problematic for a while. Gtranslator may or may not have the resources to follow Kbabel. Transolution was based on XLIFF from the start, but the developer has not had time to do any recent work on it. However, it was developed to production level at that point. Sun itself has a XLIFF editor ;) I'm not sure if that's different from the Open Language Tools XLIFF editor or not. All the professional translation editors are based on/support XLIFF (e.g. Heartsome, Trados). I think the Lite version of the Heartsome XLIFF editor is free. I can't personally recommend any tools for Linux or Windows, because I don't use them. from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)

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