= 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.

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 * 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.