On Saturday 24 December 2005 05:52, Clytie Siddall wrote:
> On 24/12/2005, at 2:26 AM, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> >>> That is a common feature of XLIFF/TMX editors: fuzzy matching on
> >>> present translation memories.
> >>
> >> What a great feature....and, for sure, XLIFF editors are the only
> >> tools to have it.
> >
> > I may misremember completely, but I am almost certain KBabel had
> > this feature four or five years ago (when I last used the program).
>
> If we're talking about filling in translation fields with exact or
> fuzzy matches from existing translation memory, don't most
> translation editors have this feature, including gettext itself?
If I remember correctly from discussions on the xliff-tools list XLIFF
allows competing fuzzy matches to be retained in the file-format, whereas
po only allows one match to be retained.
I also gathered that XLIFF differentiates between different kinds of fuzzy
state (such as 'generated from TM' vs 'not reviewed yet')
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