L10nmgr

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What does it do?

The extension l10nmgr is an extension for managing localisation and translation in TYPO3. Currently implemented features are:

• Online translation in split screen view (backend editing)
• Export & import of MS Excel XML format (external translation in spreadsheet software)
• Export & import of a localisation-friendly XML format for use with professional translation and localisation tools (external translation)
• Ships with settings files for across, DéjàVu, SDL Trados, and SDL Passolo

SVN repository

For the latest sources, which may break your installation, grab a SVN snapshot from forge.typo3.org.

Newsgroup

A newsgroup typo3.projects.l10nmgr exists and can be accessed using your favourite newsreader.

Current Project Members

(alphabetical)

Michael Klapper

Andreas Otto

Daniel Pötzinger

Fabian Seltmann

Kasper Skarhoi

Daniel Zielinski

common To-Do's

Task	Description	Responsible
Extension Documentation
Documentation „Best Practice“ für Übersetzungen		Daniel Pötzinger
Dev: Unit Test
Dev: XML format
Dev: refactor/redesign UI		Michael Klapper
Dev: scalable export (progressbar)		Daniel Pötzinger, Michael Klapper

Roadmap v3

• Define XML format (Use of XLIFF? See http://docs.oasis-open.org/xliff/v1.2/os/xliff-core.html for the Standard and http://l10ntech.de/fileadmin/user_upload/l10nmgr/format/l10nmgr_xliff.zip for an example)
• Check if there is nothing to be localised (don't push empty XML)
• Better control of transformations for different CE types
• Transformation of mail forms
• Refactoring UI
• Integrate / Test the checks done by Fabian Seltmann
• configuration options for doing the extra checks or not (performance reasons)
• configuration option to control the utf8/xml checks
• Unit Tests
• Dokumentation
• Testing
• Merge Kaspers last changes in v3 branch after the features above are stable.

=> Release: merge to trunk, release in TER

Roadmap v4

• more Refactoring on class structure
• XML export: Implementation of "progressbar" (splitting the XML export)
• more Unit-Tests
• Profiling?