On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 01:57, Barzilay, David wrote: Hello! I use Heartsome XLIFF Translation Editor, a tool produced by my company. This tool works in Linux, Windows and Mac. I talked to my bosses and they agree on releasing a special free version for people working on open source projects like Fedora Standard version of our editor has the following features: * Support for TMX (Translation Memory eXchange) databases using MySQL, Firebird, HSQL open source databases (supports commercial databases too). * Terminology databases that allow Phrase Translation * True Multilingual. We use it to translate into 36 languages, including double byte ones (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) and bidirectional (Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew - Windows only). * Aspell integrated as spell checker plugin. * Supports PO and DocBook format (and several more). Translations can be reused on PO files, documentation and web sites. * Uses colours to show the differences between the source text and the text gathered from the database. Also uses colours to mark text match quality. * Uses standard formats (XLIFF, TMX, etc) that can be used in other professional translation tools. TMX and Terminology databases can be accessed from the Internet. If multiple translators are working on the same language this helps a lot in keeping consistency. If enough people is interested, I can prepare a special version (with some limitations) in rpm format. I could also setup a special public database repository for Fedora translations in our servers. Disclaimer: the translation editor mentioned above is a commercial product. I'm offering a special free version for non-commercial use. This a contribution to the Fedora community without obligations. Regards, Rodolfo -- Rodolfo M. Raya <rodolfo(a)heartsome.net&gt; Heartsome Holdings Pte.Ltd.

Hi Jatin, Thanks for your quick response! By now, I'm taking note of your suggestion, and will get back to you if we need further assistance. Thanks, David Jatin Nansi escreveu: -- David Barzilay Technical Translator - Brazilian Portuguese Red Hat Asia-Pacific +61 7 3514.8116 http://www.redhat.com http://apac.redhat.com/disclaimer "When we combine a warm heart with knowledge and education, we can learn to respect other's views and other's rights. This becomes the basis of a spirit of reconciliation that can be used to overcome agression and resolve our conflits." Dalai Lama

Alan Cox wrote: I'll second PO edit for its cross-platform features. The difficulty of installing and learning a translation tool is the reason why we are headed towards a web-based tools (we have started working on a Python based web translator). We've also produced some Python scripts that do the following: * Convert Mozilla DTDs and properties file to PO and back * Convert OpenOffice GSI files to PO and back We hope to expand these to make translations fairly portable between different formats. We're also looking at extending them so that they will take any currrent Mozilla or OpenOffice translation work and convert it to PO thus allowing a team to migrate to the PO format and thus use the PO translation tools. Also we: * Convert PO to CSV (usefull when your translators use MS Excel) * Do consistancy checking on PO files (start and end, acceleraotrs, variable, capitalisation, untranslated, etc) * Have tools to build Mozilla .xpi translations. If you want to use or help improve these then please check translate.sf.net. Our join our dev mailing list by emailing translate-devel-request(a)lists.sourceforge.net with "subscribe" in the body. -- Kind regards Dwayne Bailey Obsidian Systems dwayne(a)obsidian.co.za +27-21-448 9265 / 7827 (work) +27-21-448 9574 (fax) +27-83-443 7114 (cell) "An English-only, or even an English-mainly, policy necessarily condemns most people, and thus the country as a whole, to a permanent state of mediocrity, since people are unable to be spontaneous, creative and self-confident if they cannot use their first language" Dr Neville Alexander - 'Where English can Serve but not Empower.'

Check these nice tools that recently released! http://mega.ist.utl.pt/~pmmm/gettext-lint/ Στις 23/Ιαν/2004, ημέρα Παρασκευή και ώρα 06:57, ο/η Barzilay, David έγραψε: