I am in search for a database with translations so I can have comonly used phrases and words translated by a machine and not by an expensive translator. Is there such a thing as a translation database with words and often used phrases? If you don't know any would you use such a service? edit: the database should only be monitored by pe...
I need to have my application translated into many different languages, I have the translators and know that I can use Qt Linguist. However as far as I can tell I have to package up Linguist myself and ship it out to the translators. Is there a web-based solution or do other package Qt Linguist with the ts files? ...
EDIT: I would really like to see some general discussion about the formats, their pros and cons! EDIT2: The 'bounty didn't really help to create the needed discussion, there are a few interesting answers but the comprehensive coverage of the topic is still missing. Six persons marked the question as favourites, which shows me that there...
Hi there, I'm currently working on an ASP.NET 2.0 web application that basically maintains product catalogs. The product descriptions are now in English, and we already designed the application to store the same descriptions in multiple languages as well (like Spanish or French). Given the scenario that we would like to translate a pro...
Hi! I have the whole MVC-Model set up and use HTML views as templates. But I have german strings in there that I would like to translate to other languages at some point. What is the best way to do this? I know I have to use Zend_Translate, but do I have to implement a single call to a translate function for every word that I have in m...
I have developed a web application using internationalization best practices such as putting all my displayable strings in property files, etc, etc. I would like to have the strings in the property files translated into 5 different languages. Does anyone have any experience using Mechanical Turk or another crowd sourcing service for la...
When you login to Stackoverflow you see a button with the openID logo between the text input field and the submit button. When you click this button you get a dropdown with the main openID providers. This is an integrated 3rd party service called 'ID selector' which has been deprecated in favour of it's successor RPX (rpxnow.com). RPX e...
I am attempting to determine prior art for the following idea: 1) user types in some code in a language called (insert_name_here); 2) user chooses a destination language from a list of well-known output candidates (javascript, ruby, perl, python); 3) the processor translates insert_name_here into runnable code in destination language;...
I want to translate xml documents with a certain schema into another schema. I know both the old and new schemas... I am planning to use python's xml.dom library , and translate line by line. Any ideas on how to go about it ? Any tools or libraries in other languages that might make this easier/more efficient. Thanks! ...
I'm looking for a .po/.mo editor. I am using gettext for the translation files but don't really like poEdit. It has to run on Windows Vista and it would be even better if it was built into Visual Studio 2008 so I could develop and translate I really want something that helps me translate and makes translation easier. I want to have sugg...
I have this If condition in VB6 If ( X AND ( 2 ^ Y)) Then a = a + " 1" Else a = a + " 0" I want the same equivalent in C# I tried doing like if ( X && ( 2 ^ Y)) // ERROR: && can not be used between int to int a = a + "1"; else a = a + "0"; but this thing is giving me an error. Here is my complete VB code that I wan...
I have a PHP application that makes extensive use of Javascript on the client side. I have a simple system on the PHP side for providing translators an easy way to provide new languages. But there are cases where javascript needs to display language elements to the user (maybe an OK or cancel button or "loading" or something). With ...
Background: Customer X has two lists of words. None of these words exists in any corpus of text in any known language. They are purely proprietary jargon. The first list is a list of words owned by Organization X. The second list is a list of words owned by his closest competitor, Organization Y. For a concrete example: Organization ...
I have a project which I want to translate into multiple languages for the PHP Part I use Zend Frameworks Zend_Translate with GetText. Now I want to translate the JS part too. I am using the jQuery JS Framework and would love to hear your thoughts on translation for JS files ...
I have a medium sized Django project, (running on AppEngine if it makes any difference), and have all the strings living in .po files like they should. I'm seeing strange behavior where certain strings just don't translate. They show up in the .po file when I run make_messages, with the correct file locations marked where my {% trans %...
Hi, We're a startup and we built a .net website which we are porting over to MVC. All our text was added to the site using labels so that resource files could be automatically built in the future using the tool in Visual Studio. I loved the idea which Facebook introduced encouraging the community to self-translate. I wonder if anyone...
I know that I can do this in Rails: <%="hello" %> but is there any way to do this <% echo "hello" %> and get it to show up in the response? I have tried response.write which almost worked, but did not... Edit: print or puts do not do it, because I do not want to write to the console. I want to write to the browser/HTTP client. Ed...
With reference to this programming game I am currently building. I am using WPF to animate canvases, and I am using the BeginAnimation method to translate (move) a canvas across another canvas. With the BeginAnimation, I need to specify the From and To coordinates for both x and y, and this is the method I am using this like such: //X...
i would like to translate a following script from linux shell to Windows XP shell GPSID=$(awk '/GPSID/ {print $3}' gora.RTK ) awk -v variable=${GPSID} 'BEGIN {printf "Numer seryjny : " variable,$1}' >>out.txt The second line has been translated; the problem is with defining a variable that contains shell output in windows :-( ...
I am starting a personal project and I'd like to provide documentation for my French speaking fellows as well as for the English speaking others. So how should I organize my directories? What to separate (I guess sources, some conf items like language for generated navigation links...)? What not to separate (a maximum of configuration...