Description:

KBabel is a tool, that allows easy management, edition and upkeep of
gettext .po files. It features:
- support for GNU gettext PO files (including plural forms) and Qt
Linguist catalogs
- capability to open multiple files (or multiple views of the same
file)
- full editing functionality, accessible through the graphic user
interface as well as through user definable keyboard shortcuts
- powerful spell checking functionality
- capability to show diffs to older messages
- full navigation capabilities (such as go to next fuzzy or
untranslated string)
- capability to save and read files in unicode encoding (utf-8)
- unlimited undo capability
- syntax highlighting, automatic file header updates, automatic change
of "fuzzy" status of translated messages
- support for easy insertion of tags and URLs
- validation and highlighting of tags and XML entities
- a plugin framework for dictionaries, such as po compendium files,
for consistency checks or translation suggestions
- a "rough translation" function to initialize untranslated messages
with suggestion from a dictionary
- automatic syntax check with msgfmt when saving and if an error
occured easy navigation to messages, which contain errors
- various methods to "see" whitespaces at end of lines or check
consistency of translated messages, like comparing printf and Qt
- arguments in msgid and msgstr
- quick overview over context in the po file
- showing source code by references in message comments

Also contains KBabel catalog manager. It features:
- file manager view for kde-i18n (or similarly structured)
directories, which shows the present status of all PO files: if they
are in need of a revision or not, how many fuzzies and untranslated
strings are included etc. This view is always automatically updated
and reflects all changes done to the files, including changes by
programs other than KBabel.
- integrated CVS support
- various file open mechanisms for editing in KBabel: use Drag & Drop,
double click, keyboard or context menu
- "Mark files" function (e.g. to identify POs that are in the
responsibility of other translators)
- powerful navigation using PO file statistics
- automatic comparisons and statistics of POT and PO files for a quick
overview which and how many files are translated (or not) and which
files may be obsolete
- syntax check (msgfmt --statistics) for existing files to control if
the translated files will compile and, accordingly, work when
distributed
- configurable commands, that can be executed from the Catalog
Manager's context menu.
- search/replace functions in multiple files at once.
- spellchecking of multiple files at once.
- doing "rough translation" for multiple files at once.