Translation process component

• US 20080189096A1
• Filed: 02/02/2007
• Published: 08/07/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/02/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Square D Company (Schneider Electric SE)
• Original Assignee: Square D Company (Schneider Electric SE)
• Inventors: Wall, Theresa, Wadhawan, Arvind, Apte, Darshana, Barkley, Joseph David, Rector, Phil
• Granted Patent: US 7,797,151 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/454 Multi-language systems; Localisation; Internationalisation

Abstract

A translation tool that facilitates translation of a software product into multiple target human languages without requiring recompilation of any binary deliverables. The translation tool is installed by an end user who wishes to translate the software product into the target human language. The end user does not need any programming knowledge. The translator tool extracts all the strings from various sources in the software product, and displays them on a UI to a translator or exports them to a spreadsheet file. The translator translates all the strings via the UI or by modifying the spreadsheet file and saves the translations. The translator tool uses an MSI utility to package the translated deliverables into an installer. The resulting set of install files are now in the target language and can be deployed without having to recompile any of the binary files (EXEs, DLLs) or other content not requiring translation.

Claims

1. A translation method, comprising:

compiling a set of files including non-localizable files and localizable files into a set of install files, the localizable files including string data from at least one source in a first human language;

extracting the string data and exporting the extracted string data to a formatted file;

receiving a translated formatted file that includes translated string data, the translated string data corresponding to the extracted string data that has been at least partially translated from the first human language into a target human language;

importing the translated string data into the localizable files to produce translated localizable files and replacing the localizable files with translated localizable files that includes the imported translated string data; and

packaging the translated localizable files together with the non-localizable files into a set of target install files without requiring recompilation of any of the non-localizable files.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the set of files is a power monitoring software product.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining whether the pixel length of a string in the translated string data exceeds a predetermined threshold and, if so, providing an indication that the pixel length of the string is too long.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the non-localizable files include executable binary files.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

translating the extracted string data from the first human language into the target human language to produce the translated string data.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one source is in at least one of an HTML, SQL or .NET resource formats.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the formatted file is in a spreadsheet format.

8. A system to translate a software package including a non-localizable file and a localizable file, the localizable file including string data from at least one source in a first human language, the system comprising:

an extractor to receive the localizable file,

a reader module coupled to the extractor, the reader module to extract the string data from the localizable file and export the extracted string data to a formatted file;

a translator coupled to the reader, the translator to translate the string data from the first human language to a second human language to produce a translated formatted file; and

a writer module coupled to the translator, the writer to receive the translated formatted file that includes the translated string data, the translated string data corresponding to the extracted string data that has been translated from the first human language into the second human language, the writer module to import the translated string data into the localizable files to produce a translated localizable file that includes the imported translated string data.

9. The system of claim 8 wherein the software package is a power monitoring software product.

10. The system of claim 8, further comprising a packager coupled to the writer module, the packager to package the translated localizable file together with the non-localizable file in a storage medium without requiring recompilation of the non-localizable file.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the translator further determines whether the pixel length of a string in the translated string data exceeds a predetermined threshold and, if so, providing an indication that the pixel length of the string is too long.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein the non-localizable files include binary files.

13. The system of claim 8, wherein the at least one source is in at least one of an HTML, SQL or .NET resource formats.

14. The system of claim 8, wherein the formatted file is in a spreadsheet format.

15. The system of claim 8, wherein the reader reads data in the at least one source format and the writer writes the translated string data in the at least one source format.

16. The system of claim 15, further comprising:

a second reader coupled to the translator to read data in a second source format; and

a second writer coupled to the translator to write translated string data in the second source format.

17. An article of manufacture for translating a localizable file including string data from at least one source in a first human language, the localizable file being part of a software product including localizable files and non-localizable files, the article of manufacture comprising:

a computer-readable medium; and

a plurality of instructions wherein at least a portion of said plurality of instructions are storable in said computer-readable medium, and further wherein said plurality of instructions are configured to cause a processor to;

extract string data from the localizable file;

export the extracted string data to a formatted file;

receive a translated formatted file including a translation of the string data from the first human language to a second human language; and

import the translated string data into the localizable file to produce a translated localizable file that includes the imported translated string data.

18. The article of manufacture of claim 17, wherein the plurality of instructions further cause the processor to determine whether the pixel length of a string in the translated string data exceeds a predetermined threshold and, if so, provide an indication that the pixel length of the string is too long.