Hello everyone,
We're at OSCON this year to announce several new translation and localization
tools for popular open source platforms and development environments, including
Python. This week, we're releasing Avalon, a gettext-like utility that requests
translations from machine and human translation APIs. Think of it as gettext
for the cloud. With it, localizing your app or translating your content is as
simple as:
sl = 'en'
tl = 'es'
translation_order = ['gengo', 'google']
self.response.out.write(_("Hello World!"))
The utility, along with a helpful how-to article that explains how to duplicate
it in other environments, is at mygengo.github.com/avalon It currently works
with Google Translate and Gengo's human translation API. We'll be adding
support for Transifex (a hosted translation and localization management
service) in the near future as well. (If you need a good localization solution
for your projects, definitely check out Transifex).
The utility implements a simple _() function which you use to request a
translation for a string, but instead of consulting a static file with a prompt
catalog (PO file), it does the following:
* checks memcache to see if there's a cached translation
* calls out to Gengo and/or Google to request a translation via an API call
The how-to article explains strategies for mimicking the utility in the
development environment or framework of your choice. So check it out, and if
you have suggestions, feedback or would like to contribute code, drop me a line.
Thanks!
Brian McConnell
Head of API Integration
Gengo Inc
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