Overview of typical localization problems and how they may be addressed.

1. Nikolay Tyutyunin
Localization Engineer
THE STORY OF ONE LOCALIZATION AND
MULTIPLE PLATFORMS

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LANGUAGES
CONSUMER & ENTERPRISE
200 COUNTRIES & TERRITORIES

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370K words
Help System: 200K
words
User Manuals:
110K words
Release
notes:
2K words
GUI:
60K
words
TYPICAL PROJECT
STATS PER LANGUAGE

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MANY PLATFORMS,
MANY TECHNOLOGIES

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NOW WHERE SHALL I
PUT A QUOTATION
MARK?
$”
’
NO ESCAPE SEQUENCE
REQUIRED:

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WHY “1252 =1254”
IS NOT A NUMERIC
MISMATCH

7. FORMAL GRAMMARS
AND FILE STRUCTURE
VALIDITY

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THE COST OF A TYPO
HOW HUMAN SEES THE STRING HOW MACHINE SEES IT
APPCONTROL = "ENABLE " +
SWITCH(CTL.ID, "PROFILENAME")
APPCONTROL = "" + SWITCH(CTL. ID, "")
APPCONTROL = "SWITCH(CTL.ID,
"PROFILENAME") + " AKTIVIEREN
APPCONTROL = "" AKTIVIEREN

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WRONG ESCAPE SEQUENCES
VARIABLES IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE
WRONG PLURAL FORMS EXPRESSION
VARIABLES INSIDE QUOTATION
MARKS
GATED CHECK-INS,
LOC SYNCHRONIZER

10. LINGUISTIC AND
COSMETIC TESTING
SOURCE-
TARGET
SCREENSHOTS
LSP REVIEW
FIX ISSUES
TARGET
SCREENSHOTS
CHECK
CHANGES

11. UI AUTOMATION,
PARALLEL TESTING
IN ACTION
MASTER ENV
800 SCREENSHOTS
IN 4 HOURS
SIMULTANEOUS EXECUTION OF
APPLICATION ON MULIPLE ENVs

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SCREENSHOTS
VIEWER & COMPARER

13. DO YOU SPEAK
WINDOWS?

14. TERMINOLOGY IS KING
MSFT LANGUAGE PORTAL
TERMINOLOGY SERVICE API

15. OSX & iOS GLOSSARIES
https://developer.apple.com/downloads
OS X – 32 LANGS
IOS 36 LANGS
BILINGUAL FILES .LG
COVERT TO .TMX
WITH AppleTrans
OR xBench

16. HOW TO MAINTAIN
CONSISTENCY
BETWEEN
GUI & HELP SYSTEM?
16

17. GUI VERIFIER
EXTRACT THE TAGS
CHECK AGAINST GUI
REPORT
INCONSISTENCIES
TAG GUI REFERENCES IN DOC

18. LET’S
TALK?
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