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Content Management for Localization Projects is Better with Subversion 1.6
Howdy! Are you a fan and/or user of the open-source version-control system Subversion®? If you’re like me, you may have missed that back in March of this year the tool underwent a fairly substantial...
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Translate Online Tip: Use a Web Browser as an Encoding Tool
With the gradual proliferation of Unicode, the issue of different character encodings is fortunately becoming less-and-less of a headache, but we’re not quite there yet. Pre-Unicode encodings are...
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Translation Localization Services Using XLIFF
In the early nineties, as CAT (computer-assisted translation) tools started to really take off, so was born the translation pivot file: an intermediary format that bridges translatable material from...
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Translating Website Content: The Benefits of Pseudo-Localization Techniques
…or, as they might say in Pseudoland, “Psëëùùdøø-løøçåålîîzååtîîøøñ Tëëçhñîîqùùëës.” Pseudo-localization (or as I’ve seen it written “pseudo localization” or “pseudolocalization”) describes the...
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Global Content Management Solutions-Localization Engineering of Global Content
Throughout the many years in which I’ve been professionally involved in the field of Localization Engineering, I can’t remember how many times I’ve been asked the question, “so, what exactly is it that...
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Business Translation Services: How to Use Time Zones to Your Advantage Part I
The trend toward globalization has naturally resulted in an increased use of geographically de-centralized teams, which means work for certain parts of a process might be executed anywhere in the...
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Business Translation Services: How to use Time Zones to Your Advantage Part III
In Part I of this series we looked at the influence of time zones on a project’s duration and process cycle efficiency. In Part II we presented the first principle of employing time zones as a tool:...
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Business Translation Services: How to Use Time Zones to Your Advantage Part II
If Part I of my article seemed like it should have been titled “Time Zones: the Phantom Menace,” then think of Part II as “a New Hope.” Last time, we looked at how time zones can impact a project’s...
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The Case for Operational Checklists
OK, I realize that it’s already 2011 and the book was written in 2009, but I recently learned about the existence of The Checklist Manifesto and instantly wanted to read it based on title alone (it’s...
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