What good alternatives to Poedit are there?
I'm looking for a .po/.mo editor. I am using gettext for the translation files but don't really like Poedit. It has to run on Windows Vista and it would be even better if it was built into Visual Studio 2008 so I could develop and translate.
I really want something that helps me translate and makes translation easier. I want to have suggestions and a spell check.
[No option? If there really are no options I might as well do something about it and code something so translating is easy again. You could even integrate http://dict.leo.org or see what Google Translate has to offer for the Query. ]
Answer
Here are some good alternatives to Poedit:
Translation editors
- Lokalize: for KDE users (KBabel is now obsolete).
- GTranslator: for GNOME users.
- GTeddead link: runs everywhere Eclipse runs.
- Virtaal: Windows, Linux, Mac. Good choice for GNOME users.
Text editor
- Vim: you can use the Vim script for po files Editing
- Emacs: you can use po mode to do your editing.
Other notes
There's a php application that would be useful for collaborative editing. Actually synchronizing with a subversion system would solve the problem anyways with any of these tools. However, if anyone does remember more applications, feel free to add.