Internationalization (I18N)

Internationalization (I18N)

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Internationalization (I18N)

mother tongue

Translation & localization; Internationalization (I18N)

A good example of a literal translation. In English we say native language.

Case weight

Translation & localization; Internationalization (I18N)

In cultural sorting, the combined weight value of case, subscripting, superscripting, fractions, and other factors. For example, the lowercase letter a precedes the uppercase letter A, and middle ...

The set of characters that are used by a language or by a group of languages. A character set includes national characters, special characters (such as punctuation marks and mathematical symbols), ...

Language service provider (LSP)

Translation & localization; Internationalization (I18N)

A company that provides language services through in-house and/or freelance translators and interpreters.

Freelance translator

Translation & localization; Internationalization (I18N)

A self-employed translator who provides his/her services to a number of clients/agencies and often specialises in particular fields, such as medical, financial and legal translation.

Copy writing

Translation & localization; Internationalization (I18N)

While transcreators strive to actually copy write into a target language, the primary responsibility of a translator is to accurately translate the source content into a target language. In order to ...

Website translation

Translation & localization; Internationalization (I18N)

Website translation is also known as "Website Globalization". In order to truly "translate" a website into other languages you may need both internationalisation (I18n) and Localization (L10n) ...