Presented by Franklin Angulo, Director of Engineering at Squarespace at Cocktails & Context NYC on Thursday, August 3rd.

1. Cocktails & Context (August 2017)

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Front site
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Help center
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Customer Support

15. 01
Translation directives in Javascript
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Infrastructure out of our control
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No A/B testing
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Super Bowls

18. 01
More languages
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Match advertising campaigns (e.g. UK)

19. Localization engine which enables a
continuous localization process in a fully
automated and scalable fashion.

20. ● TCS acts as a broker between our code repositories and translation memory
management systems (e.g. Smartling)
● Responsible for translation coordination and managing the state of translation
delivery
● A service built internally at Squarespace

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25. 01
Better customization: non-VCS use cases (vs. Smartling Repository Connector)
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Better control of state: tracking translation status, auditing
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Observability: it’s an internal service with SLAs

26. 01
Pluralization!

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Specify that a string is plural sensitive and that it requires translation to a number of
plural forms depending on the target language
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Supports plurals in YAML, Android XML, iOS files, Gettext & QT TS Linguist
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Does not support pluralization out of the box for all other formats (e.g. JSON)
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All file formats supports in Smartling are fully supported in our Squarespace TCS

28. Java Properties YAML JSON
Plurals ✖ ✓ ✖
Placeholders ✓ ✓ ✓
Variants ✓ ✓ ✓
Translation Instruction ✓ ✓ ✓

30. Thank you!