Virtaal Features
Virtaal has many features for beginners and advanced users.
Ideal for Beginners
Virtaal is perfect for the new member on your team:
- Simple and intuitive layout
- Colour highlighting
- Quality checks
- Displays comments from programmers and previous translators
- Displays context (like msgctxt in PO)
- Easy way to look-up selected text on the web
- Tutorial and guide for localisation available from the
Help menu
Productive Environment
Virtaal will make you more productive
- Fast and easy navigation within the file
- Auto-correction of common mistakes
- Auto-completion of long words
- Automatic sensing of the initial cursor position
- Copying original string to target string taking your language’s punctuation
rules into account
- Highlighting and copying placeables from the source text
- Easily find your work by moving between the units that are untranslated or
fuzzy
- Automatically update the PO header when saving
- Terminology help. Suggestions can come from:
- Reuse existing translations. Suggestions can come from:
- The current file
- Alternative translations (previous msgid in PO, or alt-trans in XLIFF)
- Previously saved translations
- Open-Tran.eu
- A team / office TM server
- A tinyTM server
- Amagama
- Machine translation
More
- Search and replace with regular expressions and Unicode normalisation
- Spell checking for translation and original text
- Word and string based translation statistics in file properties
- Uses language codes from ISO 639-1 if available, or
otherwise from ISO 639-3. Arbitrary IETF language tags as
described in BCP 47 can be used.
- Export .po files to .mo
- Support for inverse colour schemes for accessibility.
- Designed to also work well on small screens.
- Debug compiled application translations by opening .mo and .qm files directly
- Platform independence means you can run Virtaal on Windows, Linux, Mac OSX
and probably other systems as well.
- Native window dialogs on Gnome, KDE, Windows and OSX