Program localization and translation tool

[Tim Green]

A programmer I work with occasionally, Bernd Klaiber, has just produced a very cool localization and translation tool for Windows applications. It's called Language Illuminator and what it basically does is this:

• Find and extract the language strings from EXEs and resources and load them into an editable database.
• Edit and/or translate the extracted strings.
• Write the translated strings back to the program, either the EXE (overwriting the originals) or separate resource files.
• Maintain an autotranslation database for all strings you've already translated.
• Interface with Babelfish for automatic online translation (this is really just a bit of fun -- you wouldn't want to seriously depend on the Babelfish translations for anything)
• Generate translation ZIP packages for external translators, including a license-free runtime version of the Language Illuminator program itself with all editing functions active.

For more details have a look at the program here on Bernd's website.