<othercredit role="translator"><firstname>Malcolm</firstname><surname>Hunter</surname><affiliation><address><email>malcolm.hunter@gmx.co.uk</email></address></affiliation><contrib>Conversion to British English</contrib></othercredit>
<para>&kbabel; is a suite of of an advanced and easy to use <acronym>PO</acronym> file editor comprising &kbabel;, a multi functional &cataloguemanager; and a dictionary for translators &kbabeldict;. It supports many advanced features and it lets you customise many options. </para>
<para>&kbabel; is an advanced and easy to use <acronym>PO</acronym> file (&GNU; gettext message catalogues) editor. It has many features, that make it easy to edit and manage your <acronym>PO</acronym> files. This includes full navigation capabilities, extensive editing functionality, search functions, syntax checking and statistics function. &cataloguemanager; is a file manager view, which helps you keep an overview over your <acronym>PO</acronym> files. &kbabeldict; allows you to translate any text using &kbabel; capabilities for automated translation. The &kbabel; suite will help you to translate quickly and also to keep translations consistent. </para>
<para>With the &kde; project growing continuously, the number of <acronym>PO</acronym> messages is over 47000 at the time of writing this documentation (plus another 20000 messages used for translating application documentation). There is a need to stay organised and consistent across all translations. </para>