What did it take to allow Pootle, our web-based localisation platform to support Qt Linguist (.ts), TMX and TBX formats?

Three lines of code!

Translate.org.za are the proud parents of a new Zulu spell checker.

What makes us such proud parents? We've ported the spell checker from the Myspell platform to Hunspell. Which means what exactly? It means that we can now spell check Zulu text at much higher precision. It also puts the platform in place to ratchet up the checkers performance.

Virtaal, a Computer Assisted Translation (CAT) tool, has been providing translators with Machine Translation suggestions through its plugin system. We've just committed a new Machine Translation plugin that allows Virtaal to use Microsoft Translator's new Haitian Creole translation engine.

With the release of Virtaal 0.5.0 I've had a little bit of time to reflect on this tool.

Virtaal is a CAT (Computer Assisted Translation) tool, a tool designed to help human translators translate more effectively. From the comments we get from various localisers they're loving Virtaal, they're working much more quickly then they have on any other tool.

Friedel introduced pseudo localisation covering simple rewrite rules, the insertion of source tags and an interview with Rail Aliev where he tagging OpenOffice.org.

Recently three events have shown me the powerful new features that we can and are adding to podebug:

Yes 10 African languages for Firefox. Officially there is 1 (one) African language (Afrikaans) in Firefox, not counting languages of wider communication like English, French, Portuguese and Arabic.

You might want to call this an announcement of sorts.  This is something that has been brewing in my mind for many years now, its just that I got irritated, found the time, sat down and began writing and planning.