Translations

Launchpad Translations provides an easy web interface to translating software. It lets translators care about translating, rather than having to learn about the infrastructure that supports internationalisation.

• Export of changes relative to upstream
• Exports for a project release series or source package (collectively, per language, or as individual translation files).
• Export of gettext (.po) format and generation of MO files, as well as a custom gettext-based XPI compatibility format. Import of gettext as well as Mozilla XPI.
• Full-featured gettext support in the GNU, Gnome, and KDE dialects: plural forms, message contexts, source references, comments, and flags.
• Manual .pot uploads
• Continuous template (.pot) and translation file (.po) imports from specified Bazaar branches
• Continuous translation file (.po) exports to a Bazaar branch
• Automatic suggestions from other projects and packages
• Automatic suggestions from other languages
• Translation groups
  • Translation teams
• Separate permissions for the "translate" and "review" activities.
• Configurable permission models.
• Organizational structures for translation and review: translation groups and translation teams.
• Translation UI for the "translate" and "review" activities.
• Translation guidelines
• Plural forms
• Display of template comments
• If you use intltool: commit a change to your code (in Launchpad or some other repository) and see your new translatable strings automatically show up in the Launchpad translation UI.
  • Translate in a web UI or, given the right permissions, do them in your favourite editor and upload them. Or commit them to your bzr branch and have them imported from there.
  • Let Launchpad commit additional translations made in the web UI back to your bzr branch--or another bzr branch of your choice.
• Automatic translation credits.
• Separate translation of multiple release series, with automatic sharing for identical strings.
• Personal "dashboard" to guide translators and reviewers to where their effort is needed most.
• Translation statistics: untranslated messages, translated messages, messages changed compared to upstream, translated messages that weren't translated upstream.
• Prioritized template listings.
• Show contributions by specific users, and how they are used.
• Filtered translation views for untranslated messages; messages with new suggestions; and messages that have been changed compared to upstream.
• Automatic checking of format strings.
• Detection of conflicts between translations in uploaded files and concurrent changes in the web UI.
• Summarized overviews for your preferred language(s).
• Automatic translation imports from package builds.
• Language packs.