Virtaal

Virtaal is a free utility for computer- assisted translation (CAT ) for professional translators. Virtaal is written in Python and is maintained by Translate.org.za.

Virtaal is particularly suitable for localization. In conjunction with the Translate Toolkit, however, the program can handle a variety of other formats.

History

The work on Virtaal began in 2007 with the first version 0.1, which was made ​​available only einerm small circle of localization experts, until version 0.2 was in October 2008, the first official release.

The name Virtaal is a pun. In Afrikaans bears " taal vir " meaning " for language", while the same pronounced " Vertaal " " translate " in German means.

Features

Virtaal places great value on a very simple, clean interface, the possibility of a purely mouse- based program operation as well as on quality assurance. Thus, a localization on the appropriate specifications on the part of Gnome, KDE, Openoffice.org, Mozilla, or Drupal be checked.

Document formats

Virtaal can edit bilingual file formats. These include XLIFF, Gettext PO and MO, TMX, TBX, Wordfast TM and Qt ts. The Translate Toolkit monolingual formats can be processed and translated Virtaal.