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Software localization

Localization FormatsCharacteristics, localization strategies

Dipl.-Übersetzer Daniel ZielinskiDept. 4.6 - Saarland UniversityEmail: [email protected]

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Localization Formats: Overview

• Software: RC files, Borland Delphi, Java, XML, .NET, Visual Basic, .po, XLIFF, ...

• Online help: chm, hlp, rtf• Documentation: fm, indd, doc, rtf, …• Web pages: xml, html, php, js, pl, …• Graphic files: gif, jpg, tiff, psd, …

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Localization Formats: Software

• Special software formats– RC files– HTML– XML

• Meta localization formats– XLIFF

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Localization Formats:

• Document formats in which localization relevant data can be stored

• Motivation and goal: separation of program code and localization data

• Programming languages offer different localization formats

• The differences depend on:– Which data is considered relevant for localization – How is data stored– How placeables and escape sequences are used

Data:- Texts- Properties used for representing interfaces in software

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Localization Formats: Challenges

• External structure– Identification of localizable information– Editing without destroying/corrupting the format

• Context, scope, programming concepts– Missing context information– Inheritance– Incomplete information– Rules for target files

• Internal structure– Placeables– Escape sequences– Tags

text-based vs.

XML-based

Binary filesvs.

source files

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Windows RC Files

• Standard Windows resource format• Localizable information:

– Dialogues– Menus– String tables

Information:Whereas localizable information from dialogues and menus is stored automatically in the resource files by using software development tools, this is not the case when localizable information comes from error messages and text not contained in dialogues and menus.

It is also possible that some error messages are not localized or cannot be localized.

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Windows RC Files: Example

IDD_ABOUTBOX DIALOG DISCARDABLE 0, 0, 235, 55STYLE DS_MODALFRAME | WS_POPUP | WS_CAPTION |

WS_SYSMENUCAPTION "Info über SimpleSample"FONT 8, "MS Sans Serif"BEGIN ICON IDR_MAINFRAME, IDC_STATIC, 11,17,20,20 LTEXT "SimpleSample Version 1.0",

IDC_STATIC,40,10,119,8,SS_NOPREFIX LTEXT "Copyright (C) 2005", IDC_STATIC,

40,25,119,8 DEFPUSHBUTTON "&OK",IDOK,178,7,50,14,WS_GROUPEND

Exercise:Identify the localizable information

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Localizable elements:-Text- Push buttons

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Localizable elements:- Coordinates- Size specifications- Fonts- Font size

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IDs-Not very intuitive to use-Changes in the source format without having technical support can lead to errors

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Windows RC Files: Tags, escape sequences

IDD_ABOUTBOX DIALOG DISCARDABLE 0, 0, 235, 55STYLE DS_MODALFRAME | WS_POPUP | WS_CAPTION | WS_SYSMENUCAPTION "Meyer && Söhne"FONT 8, "MS Sans Serif"BEGIN ICON IDR_MAINFRAME, IDC_STATIC, 11,17,20,20

LTEXT "SimpleSample Version 1.0", IDC_STATIC,40,10,119,8,SS_NOPREFIX

LTEXT "Copyright (C) 2005", IDC_STATIC, 40,25,119,8

DEFPUSHBUTTON "&OK",IDOK,178,7,50,14,WS_GROUPEND

STRING TABLE DISCARDABLE BEGIN AFX_IDS_ERRMSG1 "Die Datei %s enthält %d Worte." AFX_IDS_ERRMSG2 "Die Datei %1 enthält %2 Worte." AFX_IDS_PREVIEW_CLOSE " Beendet die Seitenansicht.\nSeitenansicht

beenden"END

• '&' is a Tag and determines the access key• '&' cannot be used for itself '&' => '&&' • '&&' is the Escape sequence for '&‚ (but not always, e.g. string tables)• Escape sequences for line breaks: '\n' and for '\' is '\\'

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Windows RC Files: Placeables

• Placeables are substituted with current values during runtime• %s and %d are position-sensitive placeables that are used in C

and C++• Also '%' needs escape sequence '%%'

IDD_ABOUTBOX DIALOG DISCARDABLE 0, 0, 235, 55STYLE DS_MODALFRAME | WS_POPUP | WS_CAPTION | WS_SYSMENUCAPTION "Meyer && Söhne"FONT 8, "MS Sans Serif"BEGIN ICON IDR_MAINFRAME, IDC_STATIC, 11,17,20,20

LTEXT "SimpleSample Version 1.0", IDC_STATIC,40,10,119,8,SS_NOPREFIX

LTEXT "Copyright (C) 2005", IDC_STATIC, 40,25,119,8

DEFPUSHBUTTON "&OK",IDOK,178,7,50,14,WS_GROUPEND

STRINGTABLE DISCARDABLE BEGIN AFX_IDS_ERRMSG1 "Die Datei %s enthält %d Worte." AFX_IDS_PREVIEW_CLOSE "Beendet die Seitenansicht.\nSeitenansicht beenden" AFX_IDS_PREVIEW_SIZE "Zoom: %d %%"END

Problems:Changing the sentence order in the translation can lead to changes in the order of placeables, which can cause program errors

Information:In other development environments position-independent placeables are used (%1, %2)

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Windows RC Files: String tables

STRINGTABLE DISCARDABLE BEGIN AFX_IDS_SCRESTORE "Stellt das Fenster in seiner normalen Größe wieder

her." AFX_IDS_SCTASKLIST "Aktiviert die ""Task-Liste""." AFX_IDS_ERROR "Quelldatei enthält %d Fehler."ENDSTRINGTABLE DISCARDABLE BEGIN AFX_IDS_PREVIEW_CLOSE "Beendet die Seitenansicht.\nSeitenansicht beenden" AFX_IDS_COMPANY_NAME "Meyer && Eriksson" END

• Double quotes (") are escaped with ("")• Line breaks and tabulators are escaped with \n and \t• Back slashes are escaped with \\• %d, %s, %1, … are used as placeables• % is escaped with %%

IDs:Connect program code and resources

• Contain symbolic names of program elements (IDs) and their external identifiers

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Windows RC Files: String tables: Localization

• Localization without context information• Only indication: IDs (additional information in

program code)• IDs should not be modified• Possible insertion of comments in string tables

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Windows RC Files: Localization

• Flat structure• Superposition of controls (tab controls)

time-consuming localization

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• Problems with character sets & fonts– Binary resources saved always as Unicode– Programs can be Unicode- and codepage-based– Representation problems in operating systems that

are not Unicode-based (MS Win 9x/ME)• Not always localization errors

• Use of generic fonts

• Always test in localized target system

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EXERCISE I

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HTMLHyperText Markup Language

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HTML: Example<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"><html>

<head><title>HTML localization example file</title><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><meta name="author" content="Daniel Zielinski"><meta name="keywords" content="HTML Software localization Website"><meta name="description" lang="en" content="This file should give you an example of how complex web page

localization can be."><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./ecolotrain.css">

</head><body>

<a name="top" /><div>

<h1>HTML localization Example</h1><p>Some text to be localized in the first paragraph. For more information please visit the

<a href="http://ecolotrain.uni-saarland.de" title="Click here to get an overview about important issues in localization">eCoLoTrain website</a>.

</p></div><div>

<img src="./user.gif" alt="User icon" title="User icon for demonstration" longDesc="This icon shows you how a user in Asia looks like" /><br/><br/>

<b>A form:</b><br/><br/><form action="./result.html" method="get" accept-charset="ISO-8859-1">

Title: <select name="field0" size="1"><option value="male">Mr.</option><option value="female">Mrs.</option></select><br/>Name: <input name="field1" type="text" size="30" maxlength="30" /><br/>Address: <textarea>Type your address here...</textarea><br/>Email: <input name="field1" type="text" size="30" maxlength="30" /><br/><br/><input type="button" value="Submit" />

</form></div><div class="bottom">

<a href="#top" title="Top of page">Top</a></div>

</body></html>

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HTML: Example: DTD<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"><html>



</head><body>




</p></div><div>






</body></html>

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"

"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

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- Character set- Keywords- Description- Style sheets

HTML: Example: Header: TITLE, META, LINK<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"><html>



</head><body>




</p></div><div>






</body></html>

<title>HTML localization example file</title><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;

charset=ISO-8859-1"><meta name="author" content="Daniel Zielinski"><meta name="keywords" content="HTML Software

localization Website"><meta name="description" lang="en" content="This file

should give you an example of how complex web page localization can be.">

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./ecolotrain.css">

Header

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HTML: Example: Body: H1-6, DIV, P<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"><html>



</head><body>




</p></div><div>






</body></html>

<div><h1>HTML localization Example</h1><p>Some text to be localized in the first paragraph. For more

information please visit the <a href="http://ecolotrain.uni-saarland.de" title="Click here to get an overview about important issues in localization">eCoLoTrain website</a>.

</p></div>

Body

- Structure tags

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HTML: Example: A HREF<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"><html>



</head><body>



<a href="http://ecolotrain.uni-saarland.de?L=1" title="Click here to get an overview about important issues in localization">eCoLoTrain website</a>.

</p></div><div>






</body></html>

<a href="http://ecolotrain.uni-saarland.de?L=1" title="Click here to get an overview about important issues in localization">eCoLoTrain website</a>

Hyperlinks

- Link target- Link title- Link text

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HTML: Example: IMG<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"><html>



</head><body>




</p></div><div>






</body></html>

<img src="./user.gif" alt="User icon" title="User icon for demonstration" longDesc="This icon shows you how a user in Asia looks like" />

Graphics

- Path- Alt text- Title- Description

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- Caption- Input fields- Selection fields- Check boxes- Text fields- Buttons

HTML: Example: FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"><html>



</head><body>




</p></div><div>



Title: <select name="field0" size="1"><option value="male">Mr.</option><option value="female">Mrs.</option></select><br/>Name: <input name="field1" type="text" size="30" maxlength="30" /><br/>Address: <textarea>Type your address here...</textarea><br/>Email: <input name="field1" type="text" size="30" maxlength="30"

/><br/><br/><input type="button" value="Submit" />



</body></html>

<b>A form:</b><br/><br/><form action="./result.html" method="get"

accept-charset="ISO-8859-1">Title: <select name="field0" size="1">

<option value="male">Mr.</option><option value="female">Mrs.</option>

</select><br/>

Name: <input name="field1" type="text" size="30" maxlength="30" /><br/>

Address: <textarea>Type your address here...</textarea><br/>Email: <input name="field1" type="text" size="30"

maxlength="30" /><br/><br/><input type="button" value="Submit" />

</form>

Forms

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HTML: Example: Entities

• Specific characters in HTML have special functions, e.g. brackets indicate tags

• The following characters have to be escaped in HTML– & with the character string & ("Ampersand")– < with the character string < ("lower than")– > with the character string > ("greater than")

• Character strings are referred to as HTML entities

• Entities can be also used to escape special characters:– ä (“umlaut“) for ä– szlig; for ß– ç for ç

Entities

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HTML: Example: CSS

body {background-color:#efefef;

}div {

font-family: arial;font-size: 11px;font-color:#000000;

}div.bottom {

margin-top:800px;}form {

background-color:#ffffff;border-style:solid;border-color:#d7d7d7;border-width:1px;padding:5px;width: 290px;

}img {

background-color:#d7d7d7;border-style:solid;border-color:#d7d7d7;

}

Formatting

-Font size-Font family-Font colour-Size specification-List formatting

list-style-type: • decimal• lower-roman• upper-roman• lower-alpha oder lower-latin• upper-alpha oder upper-latin

• disc• circle • square

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HTML: Example: JavaScript

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"><html>


localization can be."><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./ecolotrain.css"><script type="text/javascript">

function chkFormular () {if (document.Hallo.Name.value == "") { alert("Please tell me your name!"); document.Formular.User.focus(); return false; }}

</script></head><body>

<div><h1>HTML localization Example</h1>

</div><img src="./user.gif" alt="User icon" title="User icon for demonstration" longDesc="This icon

shows you how a user in Asia looks like" /><br/><br/><b>A form:</b><br/><br/><form name="Hallo" action="" method="GET" accept-charset="ISO-8859-1" onsubmit="return

chkFormular()" >Title: <select name="field0" size="1"><option value="male">Mr.</option><option value="female">Mrs.</option></select><br/>Name: <input name="Name" type="text" size="30" maxlength="30" ><br/>Address: <textarea rows="3" cols="20">Type your address

here...</textarea><br/>Email: <input name="field1" type="text" size="30" maxlength="30"

><br/><br/><input type="submit" value="Submit" >

</form></body>

</html>

Embedded scripts <script type="text/javascript">

function chkFormular () {if (document.Hallo.Name.value == "") { alert("Please tell me your name!"); document.Formular.User.focus(); return false; }}

</script>

<form name="Hallo" action="" method="GET" accept-charset="ISO-8859-1" onsubmit="return chkFormular()" >

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HTML: Localization: Challenges

• Localization of web pages time-consuming• Hypertext documents • Text, graphics, sound and video files• Style sheets• Scripts• Adaptation of forms• Adaptation of design• Update• Knowledge in different areas needed

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XML

• Open standard for structured representation of contents and its relations

• Separation of content and form

• Structure: <tags> + text

• Free definition of tag names

• DTDs and schemas for definition of elements, attributes and attribute values

• Specific characters have to be escaped: < < and > >

• Free structure

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XML: Structure

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><!DOCTYPE buch SYSTEM "buch.dtd"> <dokument>

<kapitel><ueberschrift>Überschrift</ueberschrift><absatz id=“1“>

Erster Satz. Zweiter Satz.</absatz><absatz id=“2“>

Ein satz im <fett>zweiten Absatz.</fett>

</absatz>

</kapitel></dokument>

XML Declaration

DTD/SchemaDescription of structureDetermination of allowed elements and attributes

ElementsOpening tags +closing tags

Attributes- Attribute names- Attribute values

Comments

• Well-formed XML document: no overlapping tags, all tags closed

• Valid XML document: Structure corresponds to DTD/ schema

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<document><chapter>

<heading>Heading</heading><paragraph>

First sentence. Second sentence.</paragraph><paragraph>

A sentence in the <bold>second paragraph.</bold>

</paragraph></chapter>

</document>

XML: Document view

Heading

First sentence. Second sentence. A sentence in the second paragraph.

document

chapter

first sentence..second sentence.

a sentence bold .

second paragraph

paragraph paragraphheading

heading

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XML: Data view

<resources>

<string id="Dialog.Caption">Info about JavaSample</string>

<string id="Dialog.Label1">JavaSample 1.0</string>

<string id="Dialog.Label2">Copyright (C) 2005</string>

<string id="Dialog.OKButton">OK</string>

</resources>

resources

stringid=Dialog.Label1

stringid=Dialog.Label2

stringid=Dialog.OKButton

stringid=Dialog.Caption

Info about JavaSample JavaSample 1.0 Copyright (C) 2005 OK

XML as resource format

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XML: Representations

<resources> <string id="Dialog.Caption">Info about JavaSample</string> <string id="Dialog.Label1">JavaSample 1.0</string> <string id="Dialog.Label2">Copyright (C) 2005</string> <string id="Dialog.OKButton">OK</string></resources>

Several possibilities for structuring XML


<resources> <string><id>Dialog.Caption</id><data>Info about JavaSample</data></string> <string <id>Dialog.Label1</id><data>JavaSample 1.0</data></string> <string <id>Dialog.Label2</id><data>Copyright (C) 2005</data></string> <string <id>Dialog.OKButton</id><data>OK</data></string></resources>

Same information, different structure

<resources> <string id="Dialog.Caption" data="Info about JavaSample"</string> <string id="Dialog.Label1" data="JavaSample 1.0"</string> <string id="Dialog.Label2" data="Copyright (C) 2005"</string> <string id="Dialog.OKButton" data="OK"</string></resources>

Texts in attribute fields, empty elements

<resources> <Dialog.Caption>Info about JavaSample</Dialog.Caption> <Dialog.Label1>JavaSample 1.0</Dialog.Label1> <Dialog.Label2>Copyright (C) 2005</Dialog.Label2> <Dialog.OKButton>OK</Dialog.OKButton></resources>

XML?

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XML: Complex files

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><stringlist><region xml:lang="en"> <group type="error"> <string id="2000"> <text>Cannot open file!</text> </string> <string id="2001"> <text>Not enough memory to perform operation. Close one or more applications.</text> </string> </group> <group type="message"> <string id="3000"> <text>Do you want to close the application?</text> <alt-trans> <trans>Wollen Sie die Anwendung schliessen?</trans> <trans>Soll die Anwendung beendet werden?</trans> </alt-trans> </string> <string id="3002"> <text>%1 files have been deleted.</text> </string> </group> <group type="debug"> <string id="4000"> <text>%1: Flags %2, Ref %3</text> </string> <string id="4001"> <text>DBG: filehandle %1, openflags %2</text> </string> </group></region><region xml:lang="de"> <group type="error"> <string id="2000"> <text>Datei kann nicht geöffnet werden!</text> </string> <string id="2001"> <text>Nicht genügend Speicher, um Aktion durchzuführen. Schließen Sie eine oder mehrere

Anwendungen.</text> </string> </group></region></stringlist>


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XML: Complex Files: IDs<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><stringlist><region xml:lang="en"> <group type="error"> <string id="2000"> <text>Cannot open file!</text> </string> <string id="2001"> <text>Not enough memory to perform operation. Close one or more applications.</text> </string> </group> <group type="message"> <string id="3000"> <text>Do you want to close the application?</text> <alt-trans> <trans>Wollen Sie die Anwendung schliessen?</trans> <trans>Soll die Anwendung beendet werden?</trans> </alt-trans> </string> <string id="3002"> <text>%1 files have been deleted.</text> </string> </group> <group type="debug"> <string id="4000"> <text>%1: Flags %2, Ref %3</text> </string> <string id="4001"> <text>DBG: filehandle %1, openflags %2</text> </string> </group></region><region xml:lang="de"> <group type="error"> <string id="2000"> <text>Datei kann nicht geöffnet werden!</text> </string> <string id="2001"> <text>Nicht genügend Speicher, um Aktion durchzuführen. Schließen Sie eine oder mehrere


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Alignment


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XML: Complex Files: Bilingual contents




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XML: Complex Files: Resource grouping




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XML: Complex Files: Meta information




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XML: Localization

• Localization with TMs or software localization tools

• XML+DTD needed for translation• Often complicated localization because of

changing structures Difficult to define localizable elements

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Meta localization formats

• Resource formats which can contain information on different resource formats and additional information

• Reasons for mixing resource formats:– Parallel use of different development environments

=> resources in different resource formats (.po)– Minimization of the number of different localization

formats in workflow => use of meta formats (XLIFF)

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XLIFF: Context

• Differences between localization formats:– Structure– Use of character sets– Placeables– Escape sequences– Formatting

• Relief of localizers• Idea of a consistent localization format

independent of specific localization tools

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XLIFF

• XML localization Interchange File Format• Open standard• XML format• Description in form of a Schema• Bilingual approach• Most important element <trans-unit> contains

in <source> the information to be localized and in <target> the translation

• Possible inclusion of additional information• Use as native localization format (e.g. in

Macromedia Flash)http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=xliff

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XLIFF

01 <?xml version="1.0"?>02 <xliff version='1.1'>03 <file datatype='winres' source-language='en' target-language='de'>04 <body>05 <group id = '1' restype = 'menu' resname = '1'>06 <trans-unit id = '1' restype = 'menupopup' style = '0x10' ts = '0'>07 <source>&File</source>08 <target>&Datei</target>09 </trans-unit>10 <group restype = 'popup'>11 <trans-unit id = '2' resname = '9' restype = 'menuentry' ts = '1'>12 <source>&New</source>13 </trans-unit>14 <trans-unit id = '3' resname = '10' restype = 'menuentry' ts = '1'>15 <source>&Open...</source>16 </trans-unit>17 </group>18 <trans-unit id = '11' restype = 'menupopup' style = '0x10' ts = '0'>19 <source>&Edit</source>20 </trans-unit>21 <group restype = 'popup'>22 <trans-unit id = '12' resname = '25' restype = 'menuentry' ts = '1'>23 <source>&Undo Ctrl+Z</source>24 </trans-unit>25 </group>26 </group>27 </group>28 <group id = '2' restype = 'dialog' coord = '#;#;90;64' font='MS Sans Serif;8;0'>29 <trans-unit id = '30' restype = 'caption'>30 <source>Notepad</source>31 </trans-unit>32 <trans-unit id = '31' resname = '2' restype = 'button' coord = '29;44;32;14'>33 <source>Cancel</source>34 </trans-unit>35 <trans-unit id = '32' resname = '65535' restype = 'static' coord = '0;8;90;8'>36 <source>Now Printing</source>37 </trans-unit>38 <trans-unit id = '33' resname = '20' restype = 'static' coord = '0;18;90;8'>39 <source></source>40 </trans-unit>41 </group>42 </body>43 </file>44 </xliff>

06 <trans-unit id = '1' restype = 'menupopup' style = '0x10' ts = '0'>07 <source>&File</source>08 <target>&Datei</target>09 </trans-unit>

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XLIFF: <group>-Element


05 <group id = '1' restype = 'menu' resname = '1'>06 <trans-unit id = '1' restype = 'menupopup' style = '0x10' ts = '0'>07 <source>&File</source>08 <target>&Datei</target>09 </trans-unit>10 <group restype = 'popup'>11 <trans-unit id = '2' resname = '9' restype = 'menuentry' ts = '1'>12 <source>&New</source>13 </trans-unit>14 <trans-unit id = '3' resname = '10' restype = 'menuentry' ts = '1'>15 <source>&Open...</source>16 </trans-unit>17 </group>18 <trans-unit id = '11' restype = 'menupopup' style = '0x10' ts = '0'>19 <source>&Edit</source>20 </trans-unit>21 <group restype = 'popup'>22 <trans-unit id = '12' resname = '25' restype = 'menuentry' ts = '1'>23 <source>&Undo Ctrl+Z</source>24 </trans-unit>25 </group>26 </group>

Hierarchical structuring defined by <group>-Elements

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XLIFF: Supporting information


28 <group id = '2' restype = 'dialog' coord = '#;#;90;64' font='MS Sans Serif;8;0'>29 <trans-unit id = '30' restype = 'caption'>30 <source>Notepad</source>31 </trans-unit>32 <trans-unit id = '31' resname = '2' restype = 'button' coord = '29;44;32;14'>33 <source>Cancel</source>34 </trans-unit>35 <trans-unit id = '32' resname = '65535' restype = 'static' coord = '0;8;90;8'>36 <source>Now Printing</source>37 </trans-unit>38 <trans-unit id = '33' resname = '20' restype = 'static' coord = '0;18;90;8'>39 <source></source>40 </trans-unit>41 </group>

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XLIFF: Alternative translations

01 <?xml version="1.0"?>02 <xliff version='1.1'>03 <file datatype='winres' source-language='en' target-

language='de'>04 <body>06 <trans-unit id = '1'>07 <source>&Options</source>08 <alt-trans>09 <target>&Extras</target>10 <target>&Optionen</target>11 </alt-trans>12 </trans-unit>13 <trans-unit id = '2', translate = 'no'>14 <source>Copyright XYZ (C) 2004</source>15 </trans-unit>16 <trans-unit id = '3'>17 <source>Find</source>18 <note>Do not translate as Suchen</note>19 </trans-unit>20 </body>21 </file>22 </xliff>

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XLIFF: Comments



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XLIFF: Workflows

• Typical localization workflow without XLIFF

Source: www.oasis-open.org

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XLIFF: Workflows

• Localization workflow with XLIFF


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XLIFF: Workflows

• Automated localization workflow with XLIFF and CAT tools


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if ($you == “tired“) {$action = “patience“;

}else {

$action = “attention“;}print “Thank you for your $action“; exit;

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