Virtaal features

Support for many localization file formats:
- Gettext (.po and .mo)
- XLIFF (.xlf)
- TMX
- TBX
- WordFast TM (.txt)
- Qt Linguist (.ts)
- Qt Phrase Book (.qph)
Ideal for beginners:
- Simple and intuitive layout
- Colour highlighting
- Displays comments from programmers and previous translators
- Displays context (like msgctxt in PO)
- Tutorial and guide for localisation available from the Help menu
Productive environment:
- Fast and easy navigation within the file
- Auto-correction of common mistakes
- Auto-completion of long words
- Automatic sensing of the initial cursor position
- Copying original string to target string taking your language's punctuation rules into account
- Highlighting and copying placeables from the source text (since version 0.4)
- Easily find your work by moving between the units that are untranslated or fuzzy
- Automatically update the PO header when saving
- Terminology help (since version 0.4). Suggestions can come from:
  - Local files on your computer
  - Open-Tran.eu
- Reuse existing translations. Suggestions can come from:
  - The current file
  - Previously saved translations
  - Open-Tran.eu
  - A team / office TM server
  - A tinyTM server
  - A web based machine translator, such as apertium
Search and replace with regular expressions and Unicode normalisation
Spell checker for translation and original text (might not work on all Windows platforms)
Uses language codes from ISO 639-1 if available, or otherwise from ISO 639-3. Arbitrary IETF language tags as described in BCP 47 can be used.
Debug compiled application translations by opening .mo and .qm files directly
Platform independence means you can run Virtaal on Windows, Linux, Mac OSX and probably other systems as well.

virtaal/features.txt · Last modified: 2009/08/05 09:38 by friedelwolff