Changes from M3 to M4

Filters

  • XLIFF Filter

    • Added property for target-language and option to add it. Changed some of the language selection behaviors and set fall-back to ID option to false.
  • OpenXML Filter

    • Fixed several bugs (MS Office 2007 documents)
  • Added the JSON Filter

    • to support for example AJAX or Palm WebOS applications.
  • Added the PHP Content Filter

    • to support PHP include files.
  • Others

    • Added default DITA configuration to the XML Filter.
    • Fixed several issues with the TS, Table, TMX, and XLIFF filters.
    • Added whiteSpaces ITS extension support in the XML Filter.

Library, Translation resources

  • All the TM and MT connectors have been moved to the package net.sf.okapi.connectors.
  • Modified the OpenTran connector to use the REST interface instead of RCP.
  • Added the connector to the MyMemory server (http://mymemory.translated.net)
  • Improved Google MT connector.
  • Improved GlobalSight TM connector for inline codes, and adjusted it for GS version 7.1.6.
  • Added Pensieve TM engine and its connector.
  • Added the connector for the open-source Apertium MT system web service (http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Main_Page)
  • Changed language identification from String to LocaleId objects across the whole framework.

Steps and Rainbow utilities

  • Added the SimpleTM2TMX Step
  • Added Import and Export utilities for SimpleTM files.
  • Continued improving the Tokenization and WordCount steps.
  • Implement an option to select the XSLT processor to use with the “XSL Transformation” utility.
  • Updated the “Translation Package Creation” utility to select from several resources for the pre-translation options, and to allow specifying threshold instead “exact match only”.
  • Updated the “Text Rewriting” utility to select from several resources for the translation options.
  • Added the FormatConversion Step
  • Improved inline compatibility in projects generated for OmegaT.

Applications

  • Tikal

    • Added support for accessing the MyMemory repository (-mm option)
    • Corrected display of extended characters on the console for some languages/platforms.
    • Added threshold and max-hits options for TM query command (-opt option)
    • Added a command to create PO files from any input (-2po command).
    • Added a command to create TMX files from any input (-2tmx command).
    • Added a command to create Table files from any input (-2tbl command).
    • Added capability to query a Pensieve TM (-pen option).
    • Added support for accessing GlobalSight TM servers (-gs option).
    • Added support for accessing Apertium MT servers (-apertium option).
    • Added segmentation and leveraging options for the extraction command.
    • Added a commands to import any file into a Pensieve TM (-imp command).
    • Added a command to export a Pensieve TM to a TMX file (-exp command).