Translate Toolkit

Translate Toolkit is an open source, freely distributed and cross-platform command-line software project implemented in Python and designed from the ground up as a collection of console utilities aimed at assisting translators and localization engineers.

Can be used to access all your localizations

Being designed to be used for working with XLIFF and Gettext PO file formats, the Translate Toolkit software can be easily used to access all your localizations. It includes tools that help you to check, merge, extract and validate your localizations.

Many converters are also provided in Translate Toolkit, allowing translators to convert OpenOffice.org SDF, Mozilla .dtd and .properties, CSV (Comma Separated Value), Qt .ts, plain text, HTML, TMX (Translation Memory Exchange), and much more.

Among other key features, we can mention crowdsource localisation, translation statistics, translation file manipulation, desktop localisation, translation quality assurance, as well as plugins for several machine translation and translation memory providers.

Getting started with Translate Toolkit

Installing the Translate Toolkit software on your GNU/Linux computer is quite easy using the Pip (python-pip) utility (e.g. pip install translate-toolkit). Alternatively, it is also possible to install the application from the source package by running the ‘sudo python setup.py install’ command.

Various options are available to users when interacting with the program via a terminal emulator. These can be viewed at a glance for each command included in the package, by adding the ‘--help’ option to the respective commands (e.g. oo2po --help or oo2xliff --help or csv2po --help or html2po --help).

Supported on Linux, Mac and Windows

The software is cross-platform, which means that it has been engineered to run on all GNU/Linux distributions, as well as on the Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows operating systems. Both 32-bit and 64-bit installations of the aforementioned OSes are supported at this time.

What is new in this release:

• Changes since 1.12.0 RC1:
• Added support for UTF-8 encoded OS X strings
• RC format received some bugfixes and now ignores TEXTINCLUDE sections and one line comments (//)
• Qt Linguist files now output the XML declaration
• xliff2po now supports files with .xliff extension
• Minor change in placeables to correctly insert at an existing parent if appropriate
• Recovered diff-match-patch to provide support for old third party consumers
• Added new tests for the UTF-8 encoded OS X strings, Qt linguist and RC formats and the rc2po converter
• Major changes:
• Properties and DTD formats fix a number of issues
• Massive code cleanup looking forward Python 3 compatibility
• Important changes in development process to ease testing
• Formats and Converters:
• Mozilla properties
• If a unit has an associated access key entry then these are combined into a single unit
• Encoding errors are now reported early to prevent them being masked by subsequent errors
• Leading and trailing spaces are escaped in order to avoid losing them when using the converters
• The \uNN characters are now properly handled
• po2prop Now uses the source language accesskey if translation is missing
• Fixed conversion of successive Gaia plural units in prop2po
• DTD
• The & entity is automatically expanded when reading DTD files, and escaped back when writing them
• Underscore character is now a valid character in entity names
• Nonentities at end of string are now correctly handled
• po2dtd:
• Now uses the source language accesskey if target accesskey is missing
• Doesn't remove stray & as they probably &
• HTML
• The HTML5 figcaption tag is now localizable
• The title attribute is now localizable
• po2html now retains the untranslated attributes
• Accesskeys
• Now accesskeys are combined using the correct case
• Added support for accesskey after ampersand and space
• PHP
• Fall back to default dialect after adding every new unit
• Added support for empty array declaration when it is filled later
• Android
• Added support for plurals
• Text is now properly escaped when using markup
• The message id attribute is added to contextname
• Version Control improvements;
• Added support for Subversion .svn directories
• Checks:
• Added specific checks for LibreOffice
• Tools:
• The pocount tool has now a better counting algorithm for things that look like XML
• Mozilla tooling fixes:
• Added support to check for bad accesskeys in .properties files
• Now the Mozilla roundtrip script can be silently run
• Added a new Gaia roundtrip script
• The buildxpi --disable-compile-environment option has been restored, resulting in huge speed improvements
• General:
• Extensive cleanup of setup script
• Some bugfixes for placeables
• Misc docs cleanups
• Code cleanups:
• Applied tons of PEP8 and style guide cleanups
• Python 2.6 is our new minimum:
• Removed lots of code used to support old Python versions
• Dropped custom code in favor of Python standard libraries
• Updated codebase to use newer libraries
• Changed code to use newer syntax seeking Python 3 compatibility
• Updated some third party bundled software: CherryPy, BeautifulSoup4
• Added document to track licenses used by third party bundled code
• Removed TODO items. Some of them were moved to the bug tracker
• Development process:
• Added a functional test framework
• Added dozens of new unit and functional tests
• Expanded the tasks performed in Travis: pep8, pytest-xdist, compile all files, coveralls.io, ...
• ...and loads of general code cleanups and of course many many bugfixes.

What is new in version 1.2.0:

• The poterminology tool was added to help build terminology lists.
• New converters include po2rc, rc2po, ical2po, and po2ical.
• Support was improved for Qt .ts and Gettext .mo.
• Quality checks, indexing, version control, and speed were improved.

Requirements:

• Perl