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# Translation Related File Formats

These are different storage formats for translations and files associated with translations. See also conformance for standards conformance.

Common concerns in handling these files using our base classes for a uniform API are quoting and escaping.

## LISA formats

- TMX
- XLIFF
- TBX

## Other formats used specifically for translation

- Gettext PO
- CSV
- Mozilla DTD and Java properties formats
- OpenOffice.org GSI format

## Formats of translatable documents

- XML, HTML, etc

## Machine readable formats

- Gettext .mo