WordForge Localization Editor

WordForge Localization Tool Muhammad Rezwan Shahid rezwan@ankur.org.bd FOSS.IN 2009 Bangalore, India

About My Country Country: Bangladesh Population: 150 million Youth Literacy rate: 72% [Source: www.unicef.org]

About My Language Native Language: Bengali / Bangla Language code of Bangla: bn_BD Number of Bengali speakers: 230 million Language Ranking: 5th or 6th [source: www.wikipedia.org]

Agenda • Localization • Introduction • Technical aspect • Wordforge as a Localization Tool

Internationalization or i18n • The process of making software adaptable to different settings for different countries • The architecture for making a software localizable

Localization  What is Localization or L10N? - Product translation and Cultural adaptation - Adaptation of:  Text  Currency  Date, Time  Address  Phone number  Weekends  Colors

Localization  Why Localization?  Mass people of digitally endangered languages  Localization separates the skills of “English” and “Computer”  Localizing FOSS products creates demand for FOSS from users

Technical correctness of the translation  Unintentional mistakes  Spacing, new lines  Comma, Quotes  Understanding problems  What does the sentence mean?  Should everything be translated?

Technical correctness of the translation  Inconsistency  Lack of using same terms  Lack of using similar structure for similar sentences  Translation Variations  Translation varies between Translators  Translation varies between projects

Problems Most FOSS projects has their traditional way and/or tools for localization

Problems Most FOSS projects has their traditional way and/or tools for localization Project-specific localization tools are not very good, and need to be maintained by the project itself

Problems Most FOSS projects has their traditional way and/or tools for localization Project-specific localisation tools are Skills and resources, not very good,shared among are not and need to be maintained projects by the project itself

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Facilitating FOSS Localization Supports a Localization Tool can provide

Facilitating FOSS Localization Supports a Glossaries Localization Tool can provide

Facilitating FOSS Localization Supports a Glossaries Localization Tool can provide Translation memory

Facilitating FOSS Localization Supports a Glossaries Localization Tool can provide Translation Reference memory Language

Facilitating FOSS Localization Supports a Localization Tool Error Glossaries Checking can provide Translation Reference memory Language

Facilitating FOSS Localization Flexibility and User Friendliness Supports a Localization Tool Error Glossaries Checking can provide Translation Reference memory Language

Some Facts In most FOSS projects, messages are separated from the programs, making the Localization process very Simple and inexpensive

Some Facts In most FOSS projects, messages are separated Formats of the files that from the programs, making the contain the messages Localization process very vary from project to project Simple and inexpensive

Some Facts In most FOSS projects, messages are separated Formats of the files that from the programs, making the contain the messages Localization process very vary from project to project Simple and inexpensive SDF

Some Facts In most FOSS projects, messages are separated Formats of the files that from the programs, making the contain the messages Localization process very vary from project to project Simple and inexpensive SDF DTD Properties

Some Facts In most FOSS projects, messages are separated Formats of the files that from the programs, making the contain the messages Localization process very vary from project to project Simple and inexpensive SDF TS DTD Properties

Some Facts In most FOSS projects, messages are separated Formats of the files that from the programs, making the contain the messages Localization process very vary from project to project Simple and inexpensive PO SDF TS DTD Properties

Some Facts In most FOSS projects, messages are separated Formats of the files that from the programs, making the contain the messages Localization process very vary from project to project Simple and inexpensive PO SDF XLIFF TS DTD Properties

Popular File Formats for Localization PO Files msgid "Name: " msgstr "নাম:" XLIFF Files <source> Name: </source> <target> নাম: </target>

Advantages of XLIFF Files  Same standard for FOSS and private localization industry  Can store much more information than a PO file  Process Information  Glossary information  Translation memory information  Reference Language information  Once information is stored, they can be used later

Example of XLIFF <trans-unit id="7" xml:space="preserve"> <source>Are you sure you want to do this?</source> <target/> <alt-trans match-quality="100" origin="TM" alttranstype="proposal"> <source>Are you sure you want to do this?</source> <target>আপিন িক িনিশতভােব এিট করেত চান?</target> </alt-trans> </trans-unit>

WordForge as an L10N Tool  What is WordForge  A platform independent Localization Tool  Free and Open Source (GNU General Public License)  Developed using Python and QT

WordForge  Translation Toolkit  Dependencies  PyQt4  Python-lxml  pyenchant

WordForge Overview Comment Source Glossary Translation Translation Memory Reference Error Language message

WordForge Features  Conversion filters  Glossary  Translation Memory  Reference Language  Error Checking  Spellcheck  Project Manager

Conversion Filters Wide variety of file conversion: - OpenOffice SDF - Mozilla DTD and Properties - CSV - QT Linguist TS - Many other converters These files can be converted to/from XLIFF or PO

Glossary

Translation Memory

Reference Language

Error Checking

Spellchecker

Colorings

Project Manager • Manage projects • Check for errors • Statistics

WordForge Extra Features  Export and Embed TM and Glossary  Embed Reference Language to the XLIFF File  Store Error Information in the XLIFF File

Information & Download  http://ankur.org.bd/wiki/Wordforge Join WordForge  Report Bugs  Contribute code and submit patches  Mailing list  http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wordforge2-devel

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