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 kind …Read More
Foreign language voice-over recording involves a number of steps from script translation and locating voice talent to the actual recording and file delivery. But if you have a multimedia project that includes audio, there is another option besides voice-over recording—subtitling. Subtitling adds foreign language captions at the bottom of the screen to mirror or paraphrase …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
Localization of websites and software has always been a specialty of MTM LinguaSoft. Our technically-oriented staff appreciates the challenges of projects where translation and technology intersect. And localization of mobile applications is becoming more and more essential. According to the MIT Technology Review, mobile computing technology is spreading faster than any other consumer technology in history. …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
Many providers of software have moved to an agile development model, and it is no wonder. In the traditional model of software development—commonly referred to as the “waterfall” model—each software product was considered a single project from original concept to final release. This process had a number of problems. Since the software was developed from …Read More
