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["jeremy snyder" <halffinn AT hotmail.com>]

I worked for years at a localization software company called TRADOS. TRADOS
had a product designed to support multilingual content management, as do
many others. But these are expensive products, mostly aimed at very large
companies (fortune 1000). Most people of smaller scale do something like
"manual" content management by just mirroring directory trees. Inevitably,
though, some content falls out of sync. I think a good way to look at it,
though, is not that all content has to be available in all languages, but
rather that each language site caters to a certain clientele, and you should
publish content to the various sites only insofar as it is relevant to that
audience.

By the way, for disclosure purposes, I used to work at DTS, as did a couple
others on this list. ;-)

Thanks,
Jeremy

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[mailto:internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of David Minton
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 2:40 PM
To: InterNetWorkers
Subject: Re: [internetworkers] multiple language website?

At DesignHammer, we developed and support a marketing related site in five
languages. All of the text is translated and edited in one of our client's
overseas offices by native speakers, to insure accurate, and meaningful
translations.

It is my understanding, that for marketing and sales copy, you really need a
native speaker to write, or at least edit the original text, as different
cultures go about selling things differently.

Just to make things more complicated, to be top notch, you have to localize
for the region of the world, rather than simply the language. The UK and US
both speak English, but it is pretty obvious for which market a particular
document is written for. The same goes for French in Canada and France, etc.

David

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DesignHammer Media Group, LLC : 919.544.0086 : http://www.designhammer.com


On 01/25/06 5:11 PM, "Michael Czeiszperger" <michael AT czeiszperger.org>
wrote:

> Hey, I've actually got an "internet/web" question.  What are people
> doing for multiple language support?  Is there some sort of automatic
> translation that works, or do you have to basically mirror the entire
> site and translate everything by hand?
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