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Purpose migrated Contributing migrated Credits migrated Copyright migrated
Setting direction
Creating project objectives
Golden rules: End-user/Opensource/Cross-platform migrated
As applied by Translate.org.za migrated
Automated methods
Message marking migrated
Profiling (recording messages at runtime) migrated
General rules for quick wins
1, 2, Short, long migrated
Let the bootup process be your guide migrated
Sourcing Translators
Volunteers
Professionals
Language/Translation students
Translators
Skills migrated
Budgeting and time
Translations cost and time estimating migrated
Translation process
Defining your process
Glossary
Existing online glossaries migrated
Notes on the glossary creation process migrated
Other references on glossary creation migrated
Assigning work
Reviews using checking tools
Formal language reviews
Relooking at old work
Running a Translatathon migrated
Marketing
Creating awareness
Desktop Systems KDE migrated KDE plurals and translator comments Gnome migrated Xfce migrated Major Applications Mozilla Using moz2po Creating XPIs Adding a translated language to SF CVS abandoned Customising your Mozilla XPI build migrated Publishing your Mozilla localisations migrated Creating Mozilla RPM based language packs Firefox Migrating Mozilla translations to Firefox migrated Creating Firefox XPIs OpenOffice.org Broad overview migrated Translation specifics Patching OpenOffice.org Using oo2po Building OOo Thunderbird Distributions Debian migrated Fedora/Red Hat migrated Mandrake migrated SUSE migrated Others Google migrated
Resources Online resources for word definitions migrated Common Errors (the simple things most often done wrong) migrated Some real examples as output by pofilter migrated Guidelines Accelerators migrated Casual language migrated Escaping migrated Translating example paths and URLs migrated What bits of HTML to translate migrated Creating new words migrated Plurals migrated Variables migrated Brand names migrated Equations migrated Program Names migrated Punctuation Words that you should watch out for migrated Others British English (How to "translate" American English to British English) migrated
Locales migrated Glibc migrated X11 (Changes needed to X11 to work with your locale) migrated ICU OpenOffice.org pint to Javier's document Resources migrated
Using PO Editing tools migrated KBabel (Linux, Windows (Real Soon Now(tm)) migrated POEdit (Linux, Windows) migrated IniTranslator (Windows) migrated Gtranslator (Linux) CSV with Spreadsheet migrated Online/Web-based Tools migrated Other Translation Editing Tools OmegaT migrated Translate Toolkit About the Translate Toolkit OpenOffice and Mozilla related tools oo2po/po2oo (Convert OpenOffice.org GSI files to PO and back) moz2po/po2moz (Convert Mozilla (and family) DTD and properties files to PO and back) mozrdfcreate (Migrate Mozilla RDF files from en-US to your language) Conversion Tools html2po (Basic HTML conversion to PO) sxw2po (Convert an OpenOffice.org document to PO) ts2po (Convert Qt .ts files to PO) po2csv roundtrip migrated txt2po (Convert a text document to PO format) migrated Debugging, filtering, merging Using pofilter (Check PO files for commons errors) migrated - Detailed descriptions of available tests migrated pomerge (See pofilter) podebug (Add debug string to messages) migrated pogrep (Extract strings from PO files) migrated Scripts pocompendium (Creates various types of PO compendium) migrated pomigrate (Migrate older PO files to new POT files) migrated pomigrate2 (Like pomigrate but completely automated) migrated poorphan (Identify unintialised and old files during migration) migrated posplit (Split a PO file into translate, untranslated and fuzzy files) migrated poreencode (Converts PO files to a new character encoding) migrated Other Tools (po4a and gettexlint) BOM removal tools (NoDosNoBOM.exe) DOS line ending removal CVS (Version control system used by many FOSS projects) Using Tortoise CVS migrated WinCVS migrated Statistics Generation migrated Gettext Hacks migrated
Unicode migrated Fonts Creating a new font Microsoft Core Fonts migrated Available Unicode Fonts Rendering your script and rendering engines Known limitations Input Remapping keyboard accelerators
Spell checkers migrated Locale specific data Weather Applications migrated Gweather info migrated Calenders in applications migrated
Translation comments What they are and why you need them migrated Adding translation comments abandoned ie not really migrated Variables migrated Configuration information Plurals migrated Humour