Plone has good and easy translation support for long time
Plone is translated in many languages
first available parent
not available in your language
not show the link at all
lingua plone language bar - hides when no translations
larger websites you tend to show language selection all the time
one selection - pointing to the top of each language - bad
one selection pointing to the first available parent
not available in your language
not show the link at all
inside plone is good for smaller websites
external translations - good for larger websites and when there is professional translators who use own tools
XLIFF - XML standard
XLIFF - XML Localization Interchange File Format
Trados, one of the largest translation tools
In proper XLIFF the HTML is escaped.
Anyone see why this translator got to much pay?
Preserved HTML only shows content that should be translated.
Preserved HTML is Tidy up before the export to be XHTML compliant.
Use resolveUid for internal content.
Translation aware resolveuid will create the link to the translation.
Example of marked english link from swedish translation.
xliff translations form
Export: select source language, recursive, only invalid translations, Preserve HTML, save export info
Import: Select file, override target language since translators don’t change it Dump to .po file (developer feature)
Synchronize workflow - same state on translation as on original.
Top linguaflow,
nochange transitions
link to the export
bellow normal default workflow
Top contains information for estimating the budget. Wordcount, character count, pages.
Title contains path source -> target language and time of export.
Bellow contains information about the settings for this export and a button to rexport.
Top contains information for estimating the budget. Wordcount, character count, pages.
Title contains path source -> target language and time of export.
Bellow contains information about the settings for this export and a button to rexport.
custom manage translation form
always synchronizing from original