Open-source Translation Database: Interview With Andrew Smith

Posted by lordpenguin on Mar 9, 2012 4:37 PM EDT
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As any developer can tell you, translating your software into different languages can be a pain. Even if you manage to track down willing volunteer translators for all the different languages you want your program to be in, you still need to work with people who you may end up having trouble communicating with.

As any developer can tell you, translating your software into different languages can be a pain. Even if you manage to track down willing volunteer translators for all the different languages you want your program to be in, you still need to work with people who you may end up having trouble communicating with. Difficulty in securing and communicating with translators all over the world can be a serious impediment to getting open source programs translated, and often, results in no translation at all.

But the Open Source Translation Database (OSTD) aims to change all that, by offering up a vast library of pre-translated strings from some of the worlds most popular open source programs. A developer simply needs to upload their language files, or search for a specific string, and the results are returned in dozens of different languages.

We caught up with OSTD’s developer, Andrew Smith, to talk about his latest project.

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