Example 1
Here you can see a POT file containing general information for all languages.
Summary and personal opinion
During this session, we were introduced to FOSS, which is free and open source software. Free and open source are different concepts: open source means that the source code is open, but it does not have to be free. On the other side, free software is not always open source. In addition, we can also use proprietary software, where the source code is not available. There are many FOSS examples, from operating systems to CAT tools. Among the advantages of FOSS, in my opinion, the most important is that we can develop them and tailor them to our needs. However, FOSS might not be as advanced as proprietary software.
There is also an important FOSS localisation community. The most popular tool that they use is gettext, which extracts the source code which needs to be localised providing that it is internationalised. It creates PO (portable object) and POT (Portable Object Template) files, with the text that needs to be localised.
The lab was focused on localising the Super Tux Kart game. This allowed us to see and modify a PO file. We worked in groups and we had to change some bugs that we had identified during the previous lab. This helped me notice bugs that I did not see before. We had the opportunity to work with a FOSS localisation tool, such as Virtaal, but it would have been interesting to use it more extensively.
As an extra, we dubbed the video using Audacity. Thankfully, our team member Juan María is an Audacity advanced user and this was a fun experience. However, since we are not going to be dubbing actors, I wonder if this activity is crucial for us.
Example 2
This screenshot contains an example of Virtaal being used to correct a mistake.
Example 3
On this picture, we see how we start creating a track to record an audio in Spanish while listening to the English version at the same time.