Formats
Seven formats, opened in your browser and written back with everything outside the translated segments left as it arrived.
- XLIFF 1.2 The interchange format most CAT tools export: trans-units, ten state values, ten inline tag types.
- XLIFF 2.0 and 2.1 Units and segments, the pc/ph/sc/ec inline codes, originalData, state and subState.
- SDLXLIFF Trados Studio's bilingual file. Confirmation levels, match rates, comments and locks are kept.
- MQXLIFF memoQ's bilingual file. Row statuses, match rates and the change log are kept, UTF-16 included.
- PO (gettext) WordPress, open-source and app strings. Plural forms, context and fuzzy flags, written back in place.
- XLSX A bilingual spreadsheet. Source and target columns are found by name in six languages.
- CSV and TSV Delimiter, quoting and encoding are detected and written back the way they arrived.
Tools
- Translate a file Open an XLIFF, SDLXLIFF, MQXLIFF, PO, Excel or CSV file and translate it, segment by segment.
- Open an SDLXLIFF file online Translate and confirm a Trados job without a Trados licence.
- Convert XLIFF to Excel Send a review sheet to a client who has no CAT tool, then read their decisions back in.
- Run QA checks on a file Tags, placeholders, numbers, punctuation, terminology and consistency, with an .xlsx report.
- Compare two versions of a file What the reviewer or post-editor changed: tracked changes, edit distance and edit bands, as an HTML or Excel report.
- Merge languages into one multilingual Excel One bilingual file per language in; every language side by side, with a comment column for each, as Excel or CSV.
- Convert XLIFF to TMX A TMX 1.4b memory from the confirmed segments, tags stripped or kept.
- Pseudo-translate a file Find hard-coded strings and cut-off text before a single word goes to a translator.
Files from other tools
- Articulate Rise and Storyline E-learning courses exported for translation, formatting tags kept.
- Figma (localization plugins) Design text layers, with a length check so the translation still fits.
- WordPress with WPML Pages and posts as XLIFF jobs, translated with your memory and glossary.
- Xcode (iOS and macOS apps) The XLIFF inside an .xcloc bundle, with the developer's comment beside every string.
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