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Localization for Developers

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Overview

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Localization tips and techniques that will help you adapt your applications to foreign markets and prep new products for international release.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What you should know
1. Introducing Internationalization and Localization
  • Localization is more than translation
  • Internationalization is preparation
  • Defining locales
  • Timing internationalization and localization
  • Localization management
  • Researching localization targets
  • Considering legal implications
  • Working with specialists
2. Internationalizing Content
  • Evaluating and externalizing text
  • Avoiding string concatenation and string reuse
  • Evaluating string context and reuse
  • Accommodating different number systems
  • Internationalizing media
3. Internationalizing a GUI
  • Converting to Unicode
  • Working with Unicode fonts
  • Supporting right-to-left languages
  • Acknowledging different formatting standards
  • Adapting your user interface
  • Observing local standards
  • Considering color and visual metaphor
  • Starting with pseudolocalization
4. Managing Localization
  • Working with translators
  • Establishing clear translation standards
  • Choosing a translator
  • Exploring localization solutions
5. Modifying Your Quality-Assurance Strategy
  • Testing your localization
  • Changing your locale in Windows
  • Changing your locale in OS X
  • Changing your locale in Android
  • Changing your locale in iOS
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Dennis Meyer

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