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Sometimes the software developed should be available in more than one language and go through a 'process' of internationalization or localization.
What are the differences between localization (l10n) and internationalization (i18n)?
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Sometimes the software developed should be available in more than one language and go through a 'process' of internationalization or localization.
What are the differences between localization (l10n) and internationalization (i18n)?
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The terms have no canonical definitions and are used in different ways by different sources.
Also known as globalization is the addition of ability to software to do localization properly. It is the ability to communicate properly with users of various cultures.
This is obtained using:
There are several techniques to achieve this goal. Here we are talking about these general techniques. We talk about the infrastructure needed to perform the localization.
Internationalization has to do with how diverse data/contents are arranged so that they work well in all cultures. They must be universal or indicate what culture they are in so that they can be converted/adapted if necessary. A software that does not do this has not been internationalized.
It is the adaptation of the content to a particular culture. It includes:
We usually talk about text adaptation, but it goes for all kinds of media present in the software (think of a game that probably has more other media). Not only to meet requirements, but also to better serve what the user expects, to be comprehensive and not offensive or controversial or in bad taste.
Note that the specific adaptations of a business are not considered as a form of internationalization. It does not enter the calculation of the commission of the seller, for example. It enters everything that varies from country to country in a universal way for all uses. So much so that some of the items mentioned may not even be exactly part of the internationalization depending on the case. But there is nothing that regulates comprehensively what is or what is not part of internationalization. There are only a few Isos regulating certain aspects of.
There is a entity that handles it.
Main source: Wikipedia. Secondary.
*But please do not repeat the stupidity that Excel did :) and that politically imbecileright has made people defend it Once again
About excel you talk about it translate the function names, the if()
flipped se()
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@bigown Speaking of Excel, I think shortcuts should also escape unharmed in certain contexts. Save = control B??? Good thing I pass away from MS Office.
@rray That’s right :D ... This is already more controversial, but personally I agree, Bacco
ctrl+s
to save is almost universal haha.
@Bacco The business is to use SHIFT + F12
To be clear, the stupidity of Excel is to have internationalized wrong. First you have to choose what to translate or not. Even if I wanted to present the names of the translated functions, ok, but record in a universal way and only present the language of the selected culture.
ctrl+s para salvar é quase universal haha
only it is not universal because of office :P @rray
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Basically, Internationalization is the translation of the software or system as it is for speak other languages, not taking into account the characteristics of the places of origin of these languages.
Already the Locating is the adaptation to the market where the software/system will be used.
Example: A sales system will certainly use means of payment and we will have currency, taxes, etc. In this case, translating only the system will not help so that this software meets the needs of users. Then a location will have to be made.
The location also takes other aspects such as the way of understanding a process, which for Europeans differs from Americans or Japanese, for example.
Localization is usually understood as an extension of internationalization.
I found this reference in Wikipedia about the differences, about i18n, l10n among other things.
There is also another name for the modifications of a system to the Brazilian standards which is the tropicalization
tropicalization, did not know haha.
If you have any source it would be nice to put in the answer, cool the link, had not found this question, despite being a little more specific.
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When we talk about localization we have to understand that it is geographically the place where it is. Its very locality. We can see a basic example of location when we open the Groupon site and we realize that it already displays the city in which we meet for research. For this purpose some tools use browser permission or not. For example, the maps Google asks your permission to know the region you are in.
When we talk about internationalization We thought about the idea of providing a service for more than one language. That is, by providing internationalization, we deliver a product that can be completely changed (text, CSS, calendars) to another language. A good example of internationalization is Duolingo that changes all its content according to the selected language.
Basically we see that localization and internationalization complement each other. For more about this and a more complete idea, read: Localization vs. Internationalization
I don’t know if I understood something wrong in your reply, but in the article you indicated, localization it doesn’t seem to be any of that you answered here.
There it is better explained. I did not cite some items, for example, currency use, keyboard use, etc... It doesn’t mean that what I said (and that’s not what you meant) has anything to do with it. The questions I raised also fit the concept of location although they were not mentioned there and I wanted to show an example.
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I even found a question with the title similar but has no relation to this.
– rray