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The natural internationalisation stumbling block, particularly for technical people, is that localisation isn’t just about translating static text strings. Surprisingly, many developers and programmers fail to consider that sentences in one natural language cannot be simply translated one word at a time to another language. Differences in grammar Every human language has its own grammatical […]
Localising sites should not be about recreating the same images over and over with different text and then spending days fixing layout bugs as each locale needs a different widths to comfortably fit in each text label.