Virtaal Features¶
Virtaal has many features for beginners and advanced users.
Ideal for Beginners¶
Virtaal is perfect for the new member on your team:
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:
Local files on your computer
Reuse existing translations. Suggestions can come from:
The current file
Alternative translations (previous msgid in PO, or alt-trans in XLIFF)
Previously saved translations
A team / office TM server
A tinyTM server
Machine translation
Wide Format Support¶
Virtaal supports many file formats:
Gettext (.po and .mo)
XLIFF (.xlf)
TMX
TBX
WordFast TM (.txt)
Qt Linguist (.ts)
Qt Phrase Book (.qph)
OmegaT glossary (.tab and .utf8)
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