2014-09-15 15:35 GMT-03:00 Johan Brichau <johan@inceptive.be>:
On 15 Sep 2014, at 19:31, Stephan Eggermont <stephan@stack.nl> wrote:
The main problems I have with external tools is the lack of translation context and the slow feedback cycle. That is killing for translation speed and quality. I can understand that in-app tools work well for developers but when you start working with translators (humans) that are not developers (and certainly not Smalltalkers), you want to export the translation work. Now, Gettext is certainly not the walhalla, but I see a lot of things to do in-app before even getting to the level of those external tools.
+1 We used a Gettext like (custom dev) approach in the past, and it was the analyst and expert users who did the translations and customizations (regional dialects). It involved 3 languages and several dialects of Spanish. Some specific terms are different in different countries and/or each corporation has a different jargon which THEY WANT to see on the screen/reports. It worked very well. And because the files were plain text it was even easier to integrate different modifications to the master file using standard tools like git/diff. Regards!