Overview: Localizing Software Applications

 

Alchemy CATALYST provides the most comprehensive solution for translating, engineering and testing software applications. It provides a range of Experts and WYSIWYG Editors to help automate many of the manual tasks traditionally associated with software localization. It also provides support for a wide range of computing platform

Supported Platforms and File Formats:

Platform

Supported Files

Desktop Win16

RC and DLG Files

Desktop Win32s

RC, DLG, Win32s PE(portable Executable)  binaries (DLL, EXE, OCX). This includes supports for single and multi-lingual resource DLLs and executables.

Desktop Win64x

RC, DLG, Win64x PE(Portable Executable) binaries(DLL, EXE, OCX)

Microsoft .NET 1.x, 2.0 and 3.0

.RESX and MS .NET Application Assembly files. (.resource, .resource.dll) Optimised and Unoptimised Language assemblies Language assemblies that contain complete resources.(signed and unsigned)  and .RESX files. XML documents.

Microsoft ASP+

HTML Hyper Text Markup Language : Format used for representing internet pages in WEB browsers. and all derivative file formats includes XHTML, ASP, ASP+, JSP, PHP

JAVA Platform

.properties, .msg, .po,.mo source file formats. WAR, EAR and JAR compiled binary formats (signed and unsigned)

Visual Basic .NET

Application Binary files and language assemblies

 

General Process Overview

Alchemy CATALYST supports over 170 different file types. These cover all of the standard file formats used for Desktop, JAVA, WEB and .NET software applications. To localise these platforms the files are inserted into a Project Your project is where you manage and organize all the files that are to be localised. TTK and translated using Experts and WYSIWYG Editors. In many cases these file formats can also be tested using Validate Expert.

Basic steps for localizing applications