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[David Minton <dminton AT mindspring.com>]

Jeremy--you blew my cover ;-)

David

On 01/26/06 3:34 PM, "jeremy snyder" <halffinn AT hotmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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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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> 
> 
> 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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>> check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against
>> solid reality, usually on a battlefield."
>>   -- G. Orwell
>> 
>> 
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