Today the Translate team released version 0.5.0 of Virtaal. Virtaal is a translation program with features to help translators increase translation quality and have fun.

This work was made possible by many volunteers and our funders: - ANLoc, funded by IDRC http://africanlocalisation.net/

Highlighted improvements ========================

- Autoterm provides terminology files for Virtaal to download and use (even if the internet connection disappears later). - Web look-up allows you to look-up some selected text on websites - Highlighting of differences in non-100% TM matches - New plugins for machine translation with Google and Moses - Correctly support Open-Tran for languages with regional modifiers - Web requests now accept compressed responses if the server offers it - Language identification for easier selection of language pairs - New autocorrect files for Luxembourgish and Croatian - New translations: Sotho, Northern Sotho, Songhay, Korean, Ukrainian. - Several bug fixes.

Many thanks also for the updated translations.

Users of input methods such as ibus should see their issues fixed, but need GTK+ 2.18 (on Linux). Many thanks to Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay, Peng Huang, and Matthias Clasen for helping to resolve these issues. (bugs 1119, 1281)

This release will also benefit from some improvements in new releases of the Translate Toolkit, including support for OmegaT glossary files, and the experimental new PO parser which is much faster.

The user manual is an excellent way to learn how Virtaal can help you: http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/virtaal/using_virtaal

Full feature list http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/virtaal/features

Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/translate/files/Virtaal/ (note that Linux users also need the newest Translate Toolkit)

Bugs: http://bugs.locamotion.org/

Further translation updates for Virtaal are more than welcome.

Happy translating! Friedel

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