Free PO Editor

Have you ever needed to order translations multiple times? Then you already know that there is quite a managerial overhead in handling the translation contract and translation delivery on its own.

Continuous translation (often called continuous localization) is the practice of translating your software as you build it, rather than batching strings up for one big translation push before each release. Every time a developer adds or changes a string, it flows into Localazy (through the CLI, an integration, or the API), gets translated, and flows back, without anyone freezing the codebase or passing spreadsheets around. Translation keeps pace with your release cycle instead of trailing behind it.

Human-assisted machine translation is one of the human translation services provided by Localazy and can help you get more languages faster with zero hassle. Select this serviceif you don’t want to be bothered fixing machine-translated output but don’t need professional review.

Human-assisted machine translation gives you a person in the loop who keeps up with your project: as strings land in “waiting for translation” or “waiting for review,” our humans pick the best output of our machine translation suggestions, enforces your glossary, and fixes the mechanical problems machines can sometimes leave behind: broken placeholders, missing variables, inconsistencies. Because it covers both the translation and review states, you don’t have to worry about human review at all.

Tip: Use Localazy AI to automatically translate your content and then send it to be reviewed. In the project settings, enable publishing unapproved translations and enable the Human-assisted machine translation service. This will make your AI translation available immediately in your downloaded files with asynchronous human review to catch any mistakes.

Translations processed by the Human-assisted machine translation are automatically approved and ready to be used in your project. With enough credits, you can get your project translated completely. We advise you to follow up with thorough localization testing to correct possible mistakes.

Note: Human-assisted machine translation is structural QA, and the person handling your strings may not be a native speaker of every target language.

Set up the Human-assisted machine translation now, top up your translation credits and forget it. Our systems will work towards improving the multilingual support of your project while you sleep or focus on more important things.

To open PO and POT files, you can use any text editor that supports the format (such as Notepad, Sublime Text, or Notepad++), use specialized software (like Poedit), or Localazy - the online translation management system explicitly made for working with translation file formats.

Localazy offers a clutter-free way to browse, edit and manage localization files of many formats.

To open PO files using the Localazy interface, sign up, create a new translation project and upload the PO file. You’ll then be able to browse the content of the file in a user-friendly environment.

To edit PO files, you could use any (advanced) text editor (such as Sublime Text or Notepad++), any IDE software (such as VisualStudio Code and others), or just use Localazy, which was made specifically with translation file formats in mind. Localazy offers a clutter-free way to browse, edit and manage localization files of many formats.

To open and edit PO files using the Localazy interface, sign up, create a new translation project and upload your PO file. Then head to the File management tab to open the file you just uploaded. You’ll then be able to browse and edit the content of the file in a user-friendly environment.

Further reading: #️⃣

• Quick Start - PO

To translate PO and POT files, you could just open the file and translate all content on your own or with the help of machine translation engines (e.g., Amazon Translate). However, approaching translations this way is messy, error-prone, and tedious. You can do better!

Translating PO and POT files is simple with Localazy. Sign up for free, create a new translation project and upload your PO, or POT file. Head to the Translations tab to add new languages and start translating.

Localazy gives you a clean UI for translating PO and POT files. Enjoy built-in machine translation suggestions and all features a solid TMS has to offer!

To translate PO (or POT) files automatically, you have two (premium) options:

• Use the pre-translate feature available with the Autopilot plan to translate all content of your PO files in a few seconds by an MT engine of your choice.
• Go with our Human translation services service to get your PO file translated by human translators.

To convert PO or POT files, you can use the Format Conversions feature of Localazy.

Start by signing up for free and create a new translation project. Upload your PO files and follow the steps outlined in the documentation.

Alternatively, to automate the conversion, you can set up the Localazy CLI with the desired configuration.

Notice that Format Conversions is a paid feature, available for all users with the Professional tier and up. But don’t worry, there is a 14-day trial period to try everything before you commit.

For an in-depth tutorial on Localazy Format Conversions:

• How to convert localization files into different formats?

You might be interested in: #️⃣

• Format Conversions Documentation
• Format Conversions - Localazy CLI