Tags: Speaking of translations - what tools have people used in other projects to help translators manage the task of keeping their translations up to date with changes in the master language?
Clearly, the current system used in Openads (simple text files) isn’t that great, and I’d like to see us move to something more advanced. What have people used before that has worked well, or worked poorly?
There’s a quite nice implementation on vBulletin which is a popular piece of forum software.
From the documentation at http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/languages_and_phrases it’s not too difficult to imagine how it’s architected into the software.
The language files can be imported/exported as XML files but are stored by the app somewhere within the database I think. It’s a nice model with a “master language” and the ability to localise as much as you want.
Comment by James — June 14, 2007 @ 1:18 pm
Really good article on how we perform localization with XCode (subject to change in XCode 3) at http://tinyurl.com/lz8ey (which clicks through to an Apple.com Dev Ref page.
I’d be hugely in favor of XML. You might check with Kristopher Tate over at Zooomr. They’ve just deployed a HUGE localization effort on their site. He might have some really keen insights into how he’d do it differently/better.
Comment by Gerald Buckley — June 14, 2007 @ 2:22 pm
Gettext.
Comment by MiKeL — June 18, 2007 @ 8:35 pm
OK, I now that this was a month ago, but I didn’t receive anything from your feed because you changed feed’s url (you should post it before).
As commentator above wrote, best thing to use is Gettext. WordPress use it too.
Comment by Милан Динић — July 17, 2007 @ 7:48 pm
I agree
Comment by Martin — August 3, 2007 @ 8:12 am