In order to produce natural sounding translations, Fluent syntax supports gender, plurals, conjugations, and virtually any other grammatical category. The syntax is designed to be simple to read, but translators … Read more
One of the missions of Pontoon since its inception has been to host critical information needed for localization under one roof. Over the course of the last few months several … Read more
intl_pluralrules is a Rust crate, built to handle pluralization. Pluralization is the foundation for all localization and many internationalization APIs. With the addition of intl_pluralrules, any locale-aware date-, time- or … Read more
Last year we introduced a new review process in Pontoon with the ability to explicitly reject suggestions. That allowed us to accurately filter out suggestions in need of a review … Read more
When submitting a translation, Pontoon runs automated quality checks. They identify issues with punctuation, capitalization, variables, etc. before translations are saved, which prevents localizers from submitting bad translations. We just … Read more
Over the last couple of months several improvements landed in Pontoon. Let’s have a look at some of them! Translate across projects Pontoon now allows you to translate strings across … Read more
There’s something magic about compare-locales 3.0. It comes with Python 3 support. It took me quite a while to get to it, but the writing is on the wall that … Read more
When we began talking about style guides with localization communities at l10n hackathons, we suggested that the Mozilla Wiki was a good place to temporarily store them, until we could … Read more
Translation review is the vital part of localization. The first step of each review process is to find suggestions that haven’t been reviewed yet. Since this fundamental task can be … Read more
tl;dr: As of 1 September 2017, Mozilla’s Pootle instance (mozilla.locamotion.org) will be turned off. Between now and then, l10n-drivers will be assisting l10n communities using Pootle in moving all projects … Read more
Translation memory is now available for download in Translation Memory eXchange (TMX) file format for every project you localize in Pontoon. This functionality allows you to reuse Mozilla translations when … Read more
Let’s do a quick walkthrough of several Pontoon improvements that landed over the course of the last month or so. Abiding maximum string length. If string length limit is provided, … Read more