Another thing I forgot to mention.

Nice to have would also be an option to easily check other language translations of the source string. For example, for Romanian it's often useful to inspect the way French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese translated it, but it's also less useful to check the Chinese or Japanese translations.


Pootle has a feature where translators can set 'alternate' languages (individual setting). Mozilla's Pontoon ( https://pontoon.mozilla.org/ ) also lets people check translations made by other locales from the translation interface.

Zanata is capable of showing the alternate language, see the screenshot.
However, you need to get either Keyboard or mouse focus to show that.




This could be a cascading series of settings: a global setting (language families grouped together), a per-locale default setting (decided by locale leaders), but also adjustable by individual translators. For example: Romanian, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese could be grouped, but French locale leaders may decide Romanian is not relevant for them, and a French translator may decide German may be relevant to them. That one French translator would then get to see translations done by: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and German.

Waiting for your feedback.

Jobava
 
I am not sure the centralize approach benefit much. Translators would quite likely to set their preferred
alternative languages and ignore the pre-defined set. For long messages, showing multiple languages at the
same time simply took too much space.

But perhaps I am wrong. Would you mind providing a screen shot so we have better idea how to display them
properly?

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