Automatic Terminology Assistance¶
New in version 0.5.
Virtaal can provide terminology help in many ways. One of the most powerful ways is where Virtaal downloads a recommended file of localisation terms for your language.
This powerful feature has many benefits:
This works without any configuration. As long as the autoterm plugin is enabled, this works (it is enabled by default).
Inexperienced translators will get terminology configured, even if they don’t know that they should be doing something like this.
Since the terminology is not packaged with Virtaal, teams can maintain their terminology, and don’t need to “have it ready” for a Virtaal release.
Since Virtaal will check every few days for new versions of the file, translators can use up to date terminology, without having to even know that maintenance was done on the list.
The file can be maintained at any URL – no intervention by the Virtaal community is required.
For example, a PO file from our Pootle server can work well – this way the same terms are also recommended in Pootle. We need the experts in software localisation in each language to recommend which URL should be used for their language. Contact us if this is not yet configured for your language.
All file formats supported by Virtaal can be used.