If you plan to market your software solution globally, translation and localization are essential steps. From the outside, the software localization process can look like a “black box.” Let’s open the box. Understanding the process helps you prepare your software for translation and localization. Definitions Internationalization (i18n): Preparing software and websites to ensure a smooth …Read More
If you’re heading a start-up company with limited resources and an unproven product, going international is probably not at the top of today’s agenda. But your product may have potential to sell in global markets, and you will be better positioned to realize that potential if you keep localization in mind from the start. This …Read More
Website and software localization has always been a specialty of MTM LinguaSoft. Our technically-oriented team enjoys the challenges at the intersection of language and technology. And localization of mobile applications is becoming more and more essential. Mobile computing technology has spread faster than any other consumer technology in history. According to the GSMA Mobile Economy 2018 …Read More
Watch Ken Farrall’s video presentation on character encoding nightmares in software localization. If a website or app has an international future, a little knowledge up front can save you hours and even days of debugging. Ken pulls back the curtain on character encoding and explores best practices for prepping code for translation and localization, including How …Read More
Translating and localizing digital media brings up technical issues that not all translators have the know-how to resolve. In our last post on Encoding Nightmares, we explained the character encodings used for different languages around the globe. Unicode was developed to establish character encoding that works for all languages, and that can be opened and read …Read More
Have you ever encountered problems displaying foreign characters on your app or website, or been confused by the appearance of strange question marks like this: ���? These are the result of character encoding mismatches. And character encoding mismatches can turn a software localization job into an encoding nightmare. Encoding nightmares can overrun product deadlines and …Read More
Pre-release testing of software and pre-live testing of websites are common practices to make sure that everything looks right and all the functionality performs as expected. What some people don’t realize is the importance of performing that same kind of testing on all localized websites and software. There is a tendency to focus too much …Read More
When most of us think of translation, we immediately picture the translation of documents—legal papers, brochures, flyers—where all the text to be translated is presented in context. Modern day source texts, however, come in various forms, such as HTML-coded websites, marketing designs, and user interface (UI) strings from all kinds of mobile and online apps. The …Read More
The Korean language is spoken by over 75 million people worldwide, and with over 40 million Internet users, South Korea is one of the most wired countries in the world. But, despite the fact that Korean is the tenth most popular language on the web, the software localization industry is underdeveloped. In a recent article …Read More
Mozilla has launched an ambitious campaign to localize its open source web browser, Firefox, into hundreds of languages so that as many people as possible can have access to a device that speaks their own language. Firefox is already available in 90 languages, but this still leaves 60% of the global online population without web …Read More
