‘Localization’ Articles at myL10N.net

Pass Context information to translation

February 28, 2011

by olivier

When one application needs to go through the localization cycle, it is very often an important question that you will have about the way to give the translators the context information in which the different strings appears.

Indeed, when the development is doing i18n the localizable resources are of course be separated from the codes in which they are called. Therefore, they are stored in different ways (po, xliff, database, resx …). Any localization tools will store them in a Database and display the strings in grid.
So it is important to give a maximum of information about the context in order to evoid wrong translation.
This pays off when you increase the number of languages of course.

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: Techniques

: context, localization, translation

Using iL10Nz Web Service

January 26, 2011

by olivier

Recently, I have added a WebService connected to iL10Nz. This web service is running the OKAPI framework in JAVA. This addition extends the possibility to create parsers and to manage the translation within iL10Nz.

Basically, using the iL10Nz WebService is the same as using a PHP parser. The handling of one file types can be overriden by a customized parser in the project scope.

In order to know which file type will be taken by the Web Service, you need to check the file type description if it is supported by OKAPI.

So far I am using only this web service since the OKAPI framework is really flexible and can take almost any file types.

: iL10Nz

: il10nz, java, localization, okapi, translation, web service

Binary reduction in localization engineering

January 24, 2011

by olivier

One of the common bugs found in the localization testing is the globalization bug.
In the process of internationalization of the application, the engineer need to extract all the strings that appears to the user to store in a separate file or a database.
But because it is all human, some strings are still used by the business code to do some check or according to its value.

Let me show you a simple example:

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: Techniques

: binary reduction, engineering, localization