Table of Contents
Summary
This page is an attempt to document and align the terminology used in the itools and ttk (ttk is short for “Translate Toolkit”) projects.
| itools | ttk | |
|---|---|---|
| Single translation elements | ||
| translation element | Message/Translation | Unit |
| translation element (code) | itools.gettext.po.Message itools.xliff.xliff.Translation | translate.storage.pypo.pounit translate.storage.xliff.xliffunit |
| comments | translate.storage.base.TranslationUnit is the base class of all translation unit types in ttk. | |
| Translation files | ||
| translation file | Store | |
| translation file (code) | itools.gettext.po.POFile itools.xliff.xliff.XLIFF | translate.storage.pypo.pofile translate.storage.xliff.pofile.xlifffile |
| comments | The PO and XLIFF types are derived from itools.handlers.text.TextFile. | translate.storage.base.TranslationStore is the base class of all translation store types in ttk. This base class should not be compared to itools.handlers.text.TextFile, since TextFile represents a text file, whereas TranslationStore specifically represents translation files. |
Unit-level information
General remarks
The itools unit types do not support plurals. The ttk supports plurals via the string type misc.multistring.multistring; all plural forms are contained in the member .strings.
The ttk unit types have the same interface due to their sharing translate.storage.base.TranslationUnit as a base class.
XLIFF
| itools | ttk | |
|---|---|---|
| source attribute | source | source |
| target attribute | target | target |
| notes | notes | notes |
| notes accessor | direct | getnotes/addnote |
| notes type | xliff.xliff.Note | stored inside unit |
| XLIFF attributes | attributes | No generic support. Standard XLIFF attributes supported. |
| XLIFF attribute accessors | direct | isreview/markreviewneeded isfuzzy/markfuzzy isapproved/markapproved istranslatable/marktranslated |
PO
| itools | ttk | |
|---|---|---|
| source attribute | msgid | source |
| target attribute | msgstr | target |
