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Understanding German can really be a bonus to your World War II history learning experience. If you are a student of 20th Century history, particularly World Wars I and II, and you don't understand German, you are really missing out. Basically, when it comes to having any perspective about the two World Wars from the German standpoint, you are at the mercy of translators and interpretors. Whatever you are getting is most likely biased and based on the translators opinion. I meet many people...Read Full Story

Today, there is a trend that is increasingly on the rise: the localization of video games. What does this mean? This entails adapting a video game to the particularities of a specific market, including translation , technical modifications and adaptations to meet the standards of the place, among others. Supporters of this kind of technology increasingly complain because the release of video games are not accompanied by a good translation or localization. That is why certain steps need to...Read Full Story

The terms internationalization and localization have taken on great importance in the world of translation. Internationalization is the process used to design software so that it can be easily adapted to different languages and regions without changes to the engineering or code. Internationalization, in short, is the capability of a Web site to be translated. Localization is the process of adapting software to a specific region through he addition of specific components and the...Read Full Story

Twitter has announced the launch of the Twitter Translation Center , which crowdsources translations from Twitter users.  "Translators will be translating the product itself, not the Tweets. If you go to the settings page on Twitter.com and change your language, you’ll see what we mean," explains product manager Jinen Kamdar. "Crowdsourcing translations isn't new for us. Since October, 2009, we've counted on Twitter users to volunteer as translators and help us localize Twitter. For this...Read Full Story

Below is a synthesis of issues to be considered to improve “internalization” on the Web. * Coding: for content, databases, etc., Unicode is recommended for use whenever possible. It is better to declare the encoding of content. Usually, the encoding limits us to using certain scripts or languages. Unicode is the “encoding” that allows us to handle most of the scripts and languages. * Language: we also suggest that you declare the language of the documents to be published and indicate the...Read Full Story