This page explains the tools you need for localization and guides you through downloading and installing them on your system. Before getting started, please check whether you have the recommended localization platform. These instructions are tailored to the recommended platform. If you have a different platform, you may encounter problems not mentioned here.
The following diagram shows the tools you need for each step in the localization process. A short description of each tool follows.
AppleGlot is your localization environment. You will use it to extract all the strings and GUI pieces that need to be translated in your project. You will also use it to incrementally build your localization.
We provide several glossaries to help streamline the localization process. You should browse these and use them so as to stay consistent with and leverage from work that has already been done in your language.
AD Viewer is the recommeded text editor for localization. You should use it to translate the strings extracted by AppleGlot. AD Viewer contains many convenient features, such as recognizing UTF-8 and UTF-16 encodings and the ability to open AppleGlot glossary files.
Interface Builder is the tool you will use to edit the GUI pieces of the application. It lets you move and resize buttons, text fields, and other graphical components so that they look right with the localized application strings.
AppleTrans is a text editor specially designed for translators, featuring online corpora which represents "translation memory" accessible through documents. See the User's Guide, which is available from the Help menu, for information on getting started with it. AppleTrans is not an officially supported Apple tool. Use this software at your own risk.
NOTE: AD Viewer and AppleTrans support AD/WG glossary format only and work only on Mac OS X 10.4.x (Tiger) systems.
Download and Install Tools
Follow these steps to obtain the necessary localization tools:
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Download AppleGlot (DMG).
- Browse and download Glossaries.
- Download AD Viewer (DMG).
- See information about Interface Builder.
- Download AppleTrans 1.2 (DMG, 3.5MB).
- Browse Cocoa resources.
- Browse Carbon resources.
Updated: 2008-05-29
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