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Boosting efficiency: early localization after design phase
Starting the localization phase after code implementation usually leads to time and quality issues.
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How to generate a first class resource file: usage of URLs, user names and addresses
With this post, we are wrapping up our series on how to generate a first-class resource file. We will go over different challenges that we can find when URLs, user names, and addresses are used in the UI, focusing on how often they are used in the resource files.
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Localized URLs
Sunny greetings, dear reader! Companies that plan to conquer the world with their products and services are usually asking themselves (hopefully), at a very early stage, what to do with their URLs. In this post, I will list the pros and cons, along with my own two Euro cents.
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How to generate a first class resource file: usage of placeholders and instructions
Today we will talk about the implications and the preparation that proper placeholders and instructions require to ensure information is properly parsed and mistranslations are avoided.
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Writing with a global mindset – part 3
Sunny greetings, dear reader! Aspects such as casing, spelling, punctuation, and terminology are especially important when it comes to translation. Some of these aspects can affect the output when using technologies like translation memory, machine translation, and language models.
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How to generate a first class resource file: usage of numbers, dates and currencies
In our previous post, we discussed how naming the keys for our strings can improve the quality of our product internationally. In this post, we will continue exploring best practices in the usage of numbers, dates, and currencies.