The document summarizes WordForge, an open source localization tool. It discusses how WordForge can help address common problems with FOSS localization by providing features like glossaries, translation memory, reference languages, and error checking. It also supports popular file formats for localization like XLIFF and PO. WordForge aims to facilitate FOSS localization by allowing skills and resources to be shared across projects and reducing maintenance costs.

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

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

3. 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]

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

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

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

7. 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

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

9. 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

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

11. 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

12. 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

13. Problems
Most FOSS projects has
their traditional way and/or
tools for localization
Skills and resources,
Project-specific difficult for different
It is
such as
localisation tools are not
projects to
glossaries, translation
coordinate localization
very good, and need to
memoryefforts
be maintained
by the are notitself and skills
project shared among
projects

14. Problems
Most FOSS projects has
their traditional way and/or
tools for localization
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and
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such as to
localisation tools are not New skills are
glossaries, translation
very good, and need to necessary for each
coordinate localisation
be maintainedmemoryproject (new tools)
efforts
by the are notitself and skills.
project shared among
projects

15. Problems
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tools for localization
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and
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such as to High localization
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16. Problems
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17. Facilitating FOSS Localization
Supports a
Localization Tool
can provide

18. Facilitating FOSS Localization
Supports a
Glossaries Localization Tool
can provide

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

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

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

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

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

24. 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

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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

28. 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

29. 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

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

31. 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

32. 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>

33. 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

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

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

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

37. 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

38. Glossary

39. Translation Memory

40. Reference Language

41. Error Checking

42. Spellchecker

43. Colorings

44. Project Manager
• Manage projects
• Check for errors
• Statistics

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

46. 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

47. Thank You
Questions?