Re: [poedit-users] ordering the translations?

Werner F. Bruhin wrote:

> Any reason why you don't just provide/insist on translators using 
> poEdit, this way everyone works with the "real thing", no 
> exporting/importing/merging/correcting ......

As a professional translator, I can offer some possible answers.  I use 
translation memory (TM) which is not really easy to incorporate with 
PoEdit.  I tend to think of PoEdit as a tool to be used by translators 
who do not use other tools also.  A translator may be used to his own 
tools (eg word processor) and it would slow him down if he is to use a 
different tool.  There is also spell-checking and other features that 
are not available in PoEdit, which may be included in a translator's own 
tools.

Although personally I think a professional translator should take care 
of converting PO to his own format himself -- you can't expect the 
project manager to do everything.  If the PM can filter out the 
translated strings from a PO file, then that is already useful.

Samuel

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Samuel Murray
[email protected]
Decathlon, for volunteer opensource translations
http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/decathlon/

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