Virtaal

Infobox_Software
name = Virtaal
developer = Translate.org.za
latest_release_version = 0.2-rc1
latest_release_date = release_date|2008|10|02
operating_system = Cross-platform
genre = Computer-assisted translation
license = GPL
website = [http://virtaal.org virtaal.org]

Virtaal is a computer-assisted translation tool written in the Python programming language. It is free software developed and maintained by Translate.org.za.

Virtaal is built using the Translate Toolkit allowing it to process a number of translation and localisation formats.

Design Philosophy

The key principles behind the design of Virtaal are the optimisation of the interface for the localiser. This includes ensuring that all functionality is keyboard accessible and that needed information is always optimally displayed.

History

Work on Virtaal began in 2007 with an initial 0.1 release made to a small number of open source localisers. Version 0.2, released in October 2008, became the first official release.

Name

The name Virtaal is a play on words. In Afrikaans, an official language of South Africa where Translate.org.za is located, the expression "vir taal" means "for language". While the word "vertaal" means "translate". The Virtaal logo includes the expression "for language" leading to recursive statement "virtaal is for language".

Supported source document formats

Virtaal works directly with any of the bilingual (containing both source and target langauge) files understood by the Translate Toolkit. This would include XLIFF, Gettext PO and MO, various Qt files (.qm, .ts, .qph), Wordfast translation memory, TBX and TMX

Features

* Simple single view interface
* Searching
* Modes - translate incomplete items or the whole file

See also

* Computer-assisted Translation

External links

* [http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/virtaal/index Virtaal web site]
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* IRC [irc://irc.freenode.net/#pootle developer channel] on freenode

References