POEdit
POEdit is a PO editing tool that will run on Linux or Windows. It has a clean
yet simple interface as well as quite a good translation memory. Its catalog
manager does not seem logical at first but is powerful in that it allows you to
manage multiple projects.
Visit POEdits home page for more details:
http://poedit.sourceforge.net/
Download
http://poedit.sourceforge.net/download.php
Setup
When you first run poEdit you will be asked for some information. These items
are stored in the header of the PO files and include your name, email address
etc. The tabbed dialogue that appears needs the following information:
* Personalize: Supply your name and email address
* Editor: you can safely leave these unchanged
* Translation memory: leave unchanged for now
* Parser: unchanged
Click OK and you are presented with the PO editing interface.
The first time with POEdit
Once POEdit is started you will see the translation interface.
Click file open to open and existing PO file. If you have no PO file or only a
POT file. Then simply copy the POT file so that it ends in .po
With a PO file open you will see all strings in the top part of the interface.
Strings are shown in different colours:
Cyan: untranslated
Yellow: fuzzy - needs to be examined and might need to be retranslated
White: translated
You translate in the lower half of the interface. The original string or
English string appears in the left. You type your translations in the bottom
right hand section. It seems that keyboard navigation does not work properly
so you will have to select each new string with the mouse.
Don't forget to save regularly Ctrl-S
Press F1 at anytime for the POEdit user manual. We recommend that you browse
it now.
Using POedit
TODO
Using the Catalogue Manager
The catalogue manager allows you to manage projects with multiple PO files.
File -> Catalog manager
Click on create new translation project. Then for each directory that has PO
files add it to the project. Unfortunately it will not automatically recurse
through directories.
Using Translation Memory
TODO