Iulia Tufiº, Attila Feher, Radu Magda * Considerations on the Localization of Software Products for Management Information Systems

2. The features of TTT

TTT (Figure 1, Figure 2) assures the translation from one language to another of any texts and text data, while assisting the translation process in different ways. The main advantages of using TTT are:

• It is not necessary that the translators have programming experience.
• The integrity of the translated software is assured, TTT providing functions for the extraction of the texts to be translated from the programs sources, data files, message files, etc., and for the updating of the results in the original files after translation.
• The already translated words and phrases are automatically replaced for their new appearances in the text.
• Strong editing facilities are provided for the conversion to/from capital/small letters, for the moving, deleting and insertion of texts and fields.
• All the information concerning the translation is stored in the words and phrases dictionaries that can be later on applied to the new texts to be translated. New versions of the same product can be so easily translated, using the existing dictionaries.

Fig. 1. - TTT Translation Phrase Dictionary.

TTT allows for the translation of words, phrases and field values.

1. When words are translated, there is an one-to-one correspondence between the two languages. Synonyms and homonyms are allowed. The translated words are saved in the word-dictionary that can be continuously corrected during the translation process.

   The word-dictionary contains also compounds (short groups of words, which are always treated as an entity - ex. "general ledger")

   The dictionaries developed by different translators can be then unified and the possible translation conflicts corrected interactively.

   

   Fig. 2. - TTT Edit/Translate Menu.

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