Transifex: Beautiful Python app localization

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hi, all, is it too loud?
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alright,thanks for you all to coming
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i'm Dimitris, i come from greece
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and i have strange accents
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i'm going to talk to you a pit about python localisation today
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basic practices,
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how people usually do it
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how smart people do it
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and talk a little about developments, localisation
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how things should be done in the future, more or less
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how localisation is being changed, and where it is going
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and one of the question i wanna ask you in the beginnings
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how many of you are developers here
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everyone, cool
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how many of you have already localized your app
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and have it in multiple languages
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ok, around half of them
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how many haven't heard about localisation before
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and going to be a introductory talk
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not many, great
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alright, i'm first going to talk about transifex
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it's a python based,django based localisation tools
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transifex is a localisation software-as-service tool,
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similarly to give
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but we are going to talk this a bit latter
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so what is localisation?
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localisation is how you adapt the software,
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so that's availble at multiple regions around world
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multiple cultures,
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and also it's the process of translating it
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some people distinguish between the globalization and the localisation
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but that confuse people
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so, let's just consider the localisation as the global process
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that you take your software from just english, and you actually lance it in multiple language
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so, the key idea is of cause
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how do you get your software from just one language
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..and ship it to market in multiple, dozens or fifty market worldwide
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localisation is of cause the first step
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so the goal is to make your app look all Greek to you
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of cause, if you're shipping to Chine, France, or other countries
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if your application is only in english
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it does look Greek to them
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so you do want to translate your software
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and there are many many reviews and statistics
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wide and important like
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95% of the world population does not have English as their native language
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and more than the one of two people online
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do not speak English at all
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so today, with the how easy to create a web application
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it's kind of a no briner to actually ship in many languages
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so what is the traditional work flowing of translating software
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localize it in many languages
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first of all, in your code, you use special libraries
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to mark your translatable strings
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as these are English strings
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but i ideally, in the end product, when you choose your language
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i want them to be displayed with the Brazlian or Portugal strings
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so you mark them with the special libraries,
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and you export these strings into special plain text files
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that are given to the translators
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and when you're ready to release
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you actually create a string freeze
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you freeze the ui, so that the translator can start working
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and bring their translation to 100%
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if you don't string freeze,then you change a string
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and what is your translate feeling that you're obis,
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100% translated, it will be 99% translated
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so you wait, i don't know, one week it depends the size of the application
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for the translator to work
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and then the hard part start
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because the translators have no idea how to get your files
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you can give them the access to your version control systems
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but the translators really don't want that
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because they are linguist people, they are not technique people
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so, translators really hate geeks
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i know that sounds strange, but they do
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so they take the files, they translate them online
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using special tools
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and your problem starts
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how do you get these files back
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sometimes, you receive them by email
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or, you give your ssh access to your translators
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or you create some ticket systems
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this take a lot of time
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especially when you do a giant localisation
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we have really strict release cycles
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we can't do this for foreign languages
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so, let's look at how do we do localisation
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since people haven't seen it before
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this is gettext one of special libaries in python that you can use
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there are a couple of others
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but gettext is definitely the most popular one
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so you just mark you string as a translable
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using a notion similar to this one
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in django, it's a bit similar
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import from django utils translation special fonction
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and you mark the string for translation
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this is a exemple of django model
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where we translate the name of the model
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and the help text as well
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by the way, fell free to interrupt my point when there are questions
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so these are just exemples
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in python code, of cause, you don't only have just python code
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you have so many other things in your app
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usually in your web app, you have template
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you have javascript
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there are so many other ways to mark string for translation

Title:: Transifex: Beautiful Python app localization
Description:: Dimitris Glezos
Localization of Python apps used to be hard, but not any more. This talk will offer a short intro on software localization in Python and discuss today's best practices. It will present Transifex, a modern, Django-based SaaS, also refe

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Video Language:: English
Duration:: 30:13

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