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Thread poster: Madeleine MacRae Klintebo
Madeleine MacRae Klintebo
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Nov 3, 2010

I've received a number of files for an iPhone app. These were supplied as .txt. files, but I'm pretty certain they originally had another extension. As the strings are separated by a = sign wth the text to be translated on the right, I thought I could rename them as .properties (this file type also uses = to separate).

Example string:
"this is text" = "this is text";

This worked pretty well, but not perfectly, as memoQ presented me with this to translate:
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I've received a number of files for an iPhone app. These were supplied as .txt. files, but I'm pretty certain they originally had another extension. As the strings are separated by a = sign wth the text to be translated on the right, I thought I could rename them as .properties (this file type also uses = to separate).

Example string:
"this is text" = "this is text";

This worked pretty well, but not perfectly, as memoQ presented me with this to translate:

"this is text";

There was also a slight problem with text ending with a colon.

"this is text ending with colon:" = "this is text ending with colon:";

which became:

" = "this is text ending with colon:";

Still not a huge problem, but I would be interested in finding out which file extension is used for iPhone apps and if it's possible to get memoQ to present me with this type of segment to translate:

text without quotation marks and semi-colons

from this:

"text without quotation marks and semi-colons" = "text without quotation marks and semi-colons";

Not really just a memoQ question, but that's the tool I'm using.



[Edited at 2010-11-03 23:20 GMT] ▲ Collapse
 
Laurent KRAULAND (X)
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Maybe this will be of some help... Nov 4, 2010

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ipa_(file_extension)
 
Jaroslaw Michalak
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Another tool Nov 4, 2010

For such files I use Okapi Rainbow tool - it allows to extract text to be translated based on regular expressions. Naturally, there is some learning curve involved, but it is indeed very useful!
 
Madeleine MacRae Klintebo
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Thanks Laurent Nov 4, 2010

Laurent KRAULAND wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ipa_(file_extension)


I found info about .ipa when googling, but this appears to be some kind of compressed format for the whole app rather than a file extension for the actual files to be translated.
 
Madeleine MacRae Klintebo
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Learning curve - yes Nov 4, 2010

Jabberwock wrote:

For such files I use Okapi Rainbow tool - it allows to extract text to be translated based on regular expressions. Naturally, there is some learning curve involved, but it is indeed very useful!

Looks interesting, but as I only, for now and the foreseeable future, have one app to translate, the learning curve seems excessive.

[Edited at 2010-11-04 21:21 GMT]

[Edited at 2010-11-04 21:21 GMT]
 


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