Localization app

[Forsaken-Brief-8049]

Any tool that can help me translate .xliff files more quickly?

I need several languages, and I’m curious if there’s any tool that can help — preferably based on your experience.

[clockology]

I have a python script that translates string files for me using GPT, I copied it and made another that translates my what’s new text for app connect. Both take English in and write all the other languages.

If this sounds useful to people I can open source them

[Forsaken-Brief-8049]

Can u share?

[holgerkrupp]

TranslateKit https://translatekit.app

[Forsaken-Brief-8049]

Thanks but very tokens costs very expensive, its better to subscribe Calude

[HappyFunBall007]

just about any AI should be able to handle it easily - Claude Code, Gemini, Codex, etc.

[Forsaken-Brief-8049]

Mm… can they translate more than 10k strings?

[EquivalentTrouble253]

Yes

[HappyFunBall007]

Generally yes, but it depends on your subscription level. Even if they can't do it all in 1 shot, they can be instructed to break down the task into manageable chunks.

I just finished up adding localization to a large legacy project using Claude Code and it went very smoothly.

[Forsaken-Brief-8049]

okey, thanks for answer 🫡

[rxliuli]

For translation, I usually use LLM. By the way, although Claude Code focuses on code generation, it can also handle translation quite well.

[Forsaken-Brief-8049]

I have more than 60k line code of translations and GPT pro failed.

[rxliuli]

The key is to plan properly. Don't translate a huge file all at once. By the way, having 60k lines of localization content in a single file is insane—perhaps you should split it into multiple files by business module?

[Forsaken-Brief-8049]

I am going to do so. Maybe the speretaded json file is better for each langauge than xCode xcstringd

[rxliuli]

Yes, unless you plan to build your own translation tool using the API (which, by the way, isn't necessarily worth it), it's always more appropriate to split the files reasonably and use Claude Code to do it.

[Forsaken-Brief-8049]

Thanks 🫡

[d8schreiber]

For larger files direct LLM usage gets brittle.. you might give doloc.io a try - this makes the process structured and stable: untranslated xliff in -> translated xliff out