Microsoft LCX ↔ XLIFF conversion

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

Hello list !

An OmegaT user is having to deal with LCX files and the only references I found were two papers, one dating from 2010 and the other from 2013, from the same Mr. Wasala of University of Limerick.

I could not find anything else and the default filters in Okapi do not seem to handle LCX.

What's the best way to deal with them ?

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[Mihai Nita]

Looks like a proprietary MS format (Microsoft Localization Studio)

Over the years I've tried to get a copy to play with it myself, but I didn't manage.

(not even when I was an MS i18n MVP :-)

Apparently MS provides it to translators (translation companies?) while signing an NDA, and they are not allowed to share / talk about it.

https://www.proz.com/forum/localization/18889-locstudio_and_helium_localization_tools.html

https://jamesmccaffrey.wordpress.com/2006/11/26/microsofts-locstudio/

Some sites seem to indicate that the file and also contains dialog resizing information for .rc files.
  (or one of the docs from Mr. Wasala? I don't know, I've spent too much trying to read all I can find about it, which is not much)

So, short story: proprietary, undocumented, secretive format, restricted access to the tool producing it.

I think the odds that Okapi or someone else can convert that to XLIFF / back are slim to none.

> What's the best way to deal with them ?

I suppose there is no official way to get such files other than from MS.

And in that case MS would also give access to the tool.

Mihai

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[Jean-Christophe Helary]

Thank you Mihai for the thorough answer.

The person was trying to handle them in OmegaT, I think she eventually found a way.

Jean-Christophe

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