Internationalization (I18N)

Internationalization (I18N)

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Internationalization (I18N)

Legal translator

Translation & localization; Internationalization (I18N)

A translator with extensive knowledge of comparative law who specialises in international contracts, licenses, franchises, legislation, and other international legal documents. It takes a highly ...

Translation that closely follows the form of the source text. Because language derives a great deal of meaning from its form, a literal translation distorts meaning and often reads as nonsense. See ...

Translator

Translation & localization; Internationalization (I18N)

A person who transfers the meaning of written text from one language into another. The person who translates orally is not a translator, but an interpreter.

Translation

Translation & localization; Internationalization (I18N)

The end result of the process of transferring the meaning of a written text from one language into another.

Technical translator

Translation & localization; Internationalization (I18N)

A translator with the required and necessary knowsledge, training and experience in a particular technical field, such as finance, computer sciences, engineering, chemicals, electronics, etc.

Simplified Chinese

Software; Internationalization (I18N)

The Chinese script used in the People’s Republic of China and Singapore. It consists of several thousand ideographic characters that are simplified versions of traditional Chinese characters.

idiomatic translation

Translation & localization; Internationalization (I18N)

A translation that conveys the meaning of the original, or source text, by using equivalent language and the forms and structures of the target language, in order to produce a translation that reads ...