[Freecats-Dev] Re: TM migration / Wordfast integration

[Henri Chorand]

Yves,

> yes, TMX is the gateway between translation tools. There are two
> levels of TMX; all tools support level 1, most support level2. TMX
> level 2 is still in the process of being defined, but TMX level 1 is
> already an adult standard, well-defined and widely used.

Fine to know.

Yves, I also have a few questions for you:

Concerning a possible integration of Free CATS server within Wordfast, you
did not provide an "official" statement in the dev list.
Do you feel you need to examine some issues with us more in depth before
making up your mind?

Back to TMX:
Do you have any opinion about my proposal (following Thierry's advice) to
base our bilingual working document format along the lines of TMX?

Do you also happen to know something about various TMX "flavours" (eg. RTF)?
Are they related to the way styles are encoded? Do you consider a given one
as a better choice?


> Wordfast reads/writes Trados 2 and 3. As for Trados 5, there's a glitch
> preventing the current "commercial" version of Wordfast from reading it,
> I will patch this soon. Trados5 TMs are encrypted, and "cracking" their
> encryption would be illegal, at least in some countries. But Trados5 does
> not have its own encryption routine, it uses a Windows DLL to do so.
> Wordfast uses the same algorithm as that Windows DLL (of *public*
> knowledge and use), et voilà.

Yet Another Good Job, Yves   :-)


Henri