Locale

Locale

A locale includes the language of the region as well as numerous other issues, such as character set support, date/time formatting, forms of payment, data/product sorting, phone/address formatting and more. Locales are associated with target languages; for instance Brazil and Portugal are locales associated with the Portuguese language.

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Industry/Domain: Translation & localization
Category: Internationalization (I18N); Localization (L10N); Terminology management
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Translation & localization; Internationalization (I18N); Localization (L10N); Terminology management

the person checking and revising the translated content

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Translation & localization; Internationalization (I18N); Localization (L10N); Terminology management

The correction of errors in a translated text. A reading a proof copy of a text in order to detect and correct any errors.

localization vendor

Translation & localization; Internationalization (I18N); Localization (L10N); Terminology management

A supplier who provides localization related services to a localization company. A vendor can be a translator, proofreader, project manager, desktop publisher, tester etc.

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Translation & localization; Internationalization (I18N); Localization (L10N); Terminology management

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