[Localization] Which application do you use for translating?

[Eduardo H. Silva]

2012/5/2 Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org>:
> On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 01:29:58PM -0400, Chris Leonard wrote:
>> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> wrote:
>> > On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 04:18:14PM +0100, Eduardo H. Silva wrote:
>> >> Which programs do other translators use for translating?
>> >>
>> >> I've looked at Virtaal, and it says that when editing a .PO file, it
>> >> replaces the translator's name in the PO file with your own. If so,
>> >> how do you handle the fact when many translators may have worked in
>> >> the same file?
>> >
>> > It appends your name to translator's list in the header, just like
>> > Pootle does (both are developed by translate.org.za).
>>
>> Khaled,
>>
>> Eduardo may be right, I've been meaning to look more closely at the
>> issue of "translator credits" and Virtaal / Poolte.
>>
>> I know they both change the "Last-Translator:" line of the PO file
>> header, but that is not a persistent change, it changes again when the
>> PO file is next modified by someone else.  I am not sure that either
>> of these tools maintain a persistent set of cumulative translator
>> credits in the PO file itself, although obviously Pootle records and
>> displays the Pootle username of the top 5 translators in the UI.
>
> The "Last-Translator:" is, as the name suggests, the lat person who
> changed the translations in the file. If you look into the header of any
> PO file, you will see something like:
>
> # FOO translations for BAR package.
> # Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Listed translators
> # This file is distributed under the same license as the BAR package.
> #
> # Foo Bar <foo at example.org>, 2009.
> # Oof Rab <oof at elpmaxe.org>, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011.
>
> Almost all PO editors append translator names to this header (or new
> years to existing names). This is where the record of all translators
> who worked on that file is kept.
>
> Regards,
>  Khaled

Thank you all.

Eduardo