Re: Translation Software - pulling terms from software

[Sean Brierley <sean -dot- brierley -at- gerbertechnology -dot- com>]

Hi,

I've been involved with translation on and off for several years. As
mentioned, it is important to know how your product is set up to handle
translation.

I've been using a couple of translation vendors lately, one of whom is SDL.
They have done a great job for me and, additionally, they own Passolo
software that we use for a couple of things, including in-house translation
by our own people and outsourcing translation to SDL (
http://www.sdl.com/cxc/language/software-localization/passolo).

In any event, even if you have planned for translation, setting up the
initial project will take time and money. After you get the process
established and move your content to the system you set up, things will
become fairly painless.

Cheers,

Sean


On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 2:43 PM, Bill Swallow <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com>
wrote:

> First, you need to check with the development team on whether they have
> internationalized the source code or not.
>
> If so, have them extract a strings property file. This should have
> everything you need. You can pass it over to your LSP and they'll do the
> rest.
>
> If not, heh, you're all in for a big headache. If your strings are
> embedded, this means you will need to have a way to apply the translations
> without duplicating your source code and without overwriting the source
> language.
>
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 12:42 PM, Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>
> wrote:
>
> > It seems to return On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 12:25:48 -0400, Jeff Whatshisname
> <
> > jeff -dot- scattini -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >>
> >> I've recently been tasked with getting our UI translated into multiple
> >> languages. Does anyone have any recommendations for a tool to grab UI
> >> elements (Labels, hover text, etc.) from within the code to compile the
> >> translation list?
> >>
> >
> > In Linux I use the program called "strings" which seems to do exactly
> that.
> >
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strings_(Unix)
> >
>
>
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