Translate Toolkit Changelog

What's new in Translate Toolkit 1.12.0

• Changes since 1.12.0 RC1:
• Added support for UTF-8 encoded OS X strings
• RC format received some bugfixes and now ignores TEXTINCLUDE sections and one line comments (//)
• Qt Linguist files now output the XML declaration
• xliff2po now supports files with .xliff extension
• Minor change in placeables to correctly insert at an existing parent if appropriate
• Recovered diff-match-patch to provide support for old third party consumers
• Added new tests for the UTF-8 encoded OS X strings, Qt linguist and RC formats and the rc2po converter
• Major changes:
• Properties and DTD formats fix a number of issues
• Massive code cleanup looking forward Python 3 compatibility
• Important changes in development process to ease testing
• Formats and Converters:
• Mozilla properties
• If a unit has an associated access key entry then these are combined into a single unit
• Encoding errors are now reported early to prevent them being masked by subsequent errors
• Leading and trailing spaces are escaped in order to avoid losing them when using the converters
• The \uNN characters are now properly handled
• po2prop Now uses the source language accesskey if translation is missing
• Fixed conversion of successive Gaia plural units in prop2po
• DTD
• The & entity is automatically expanded when reading DTD files, and escaped back when writing them
• Underscore character is now a valid character in entity names
• Nonentities at end of string are now correctly handled
• po2dtd:
• Now uses the source language accesskey if target accesskey is missing
• Doesn’t remove stray & as they probably &
• HTML
• The HTML5 figcaption tag is now localizable
• The title attribute is now localizable
• po2html now retains the untranslated attributes
• Accesskeys
• Now accesskeys are combined using the correct case
• Added support for accesskey after ampersand and space
• PHP
• Fall back to default dialect after adding every new unit
• Added support for empty array declaration when it is filled later
• Android
• Added support for plurals
• Text is now properly escaped when using markup
• The message id attribute is added to contextname
• Version Control improvements;
• Added support for Subversion .svn directories
• Checks:
• Added specific checks for LibreOffice
• Tools:
• The pocount tool has now a better counting algorithm for things that look like XML
• Mozilla tooling fixes:
• Added support to check for bad accesskeys in .properties files
• Now the Mozilla roundtrip script can be silently run
• Added a new Gaia roundtrip script
• The buildxpi --disable-compile-environment option has been restored, resulting in huge speed improvements
• General:
• Extensive cleanup of setup script
• Some bugfixes for placeables
• Misc docs cleanups
• Code cleanups:
• Applied tons of PEP8 and style guide cleanups
• Python 2.6 is our new minimum:
• Removed lots of code used to support old Python versions
• Dropped custom code in favor of Python standard libraries
• Updated codebase to use newer libraries
• Changed code to use newer syntax seeking Python 3 compatibility
• Updated some third party bundled software: CherryPy, BeautifulSoup4
• Added document to track licenses used by third party bundled code
• Removed TODO items. Some of them were moved to the bug tracker
• Development process:
• Added a functional test framework
• Added dozens of new unit and functional tests
• Expanded the tasks performed in Travis: pep8, pytest-xdist, compile all files, coveralls.io, …
• …and loads of general code cleanups and of course many many bugfixes.