Shape Industrial Growth, Share Best Practice

Software Localization Engineering

Author: Chen Yong
Nov 18, 2006

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 Agenda

 SW L10N Engineering
 SW L10N Eng Tools
 SW L10N Eng Position
 Questions & Answers

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 Software Development and Localization

Software
Requirements Software Localization
Development Cycle
Architecture Cycle
Prepare Loc. Kit
Design
Implementation Translation
Testing
Stage1 Stage-n-I18N SW Re-build

RTM
Validation

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 Software Localization Engineering – L10N

I18N Dev Loc. Kit

Re-build

On-line help

Trans Lang Pack/

Documents
Vendor(s) Loc. Build

DTP

Localization
Engineering
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 Reducing the cost of Globalization

L10N
I18N

L10N L10N

I18N I18N L10N + I18N

Dev Dev Dev + I18N

Cost

Design Design Design

Time

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 Software Localization Engineering – I18N

Conduct
globalization
Develop
implementation
globalization
& inspection
support tools Prepare &
Develop and Conduct Conduct
Implement globalization localization handoff
globalization design review process & tools localization
training plan kit
Plan for re- Conduct pseudo
use of localization
components building
& data for
globalization Localization
Engineering

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 Software Localization Engineering

 what is software localization engineering ?

 It is not translation but still very related to language. It is
not engineering but still much related to building products.
 Localization engineering basically is taking the
development environment of a product, taking it apart,
and putting it together again after all the text has been
translated .
 It’s all that “technical stuff” that needs to happen when a
software user interface is translated, or an online help file,
or even an HTML file.
 --- Bert Esselink

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 Agenda

 SW L10N Engineering
 SW L10N Eng Tools
 SW L10N Eng Position
 Questions & Answers

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 SW Localization Engineering Tools

Multimedia
Flash
Loc analyze
Director
InstallShield /Windows Installer
On-line help Acrobat
Vss / Cvs
Perl / Command PageMaker
Re-build Photoshop
Catalyst/passolo Dreamweaver
VB / VC / JDK
Re-compile DTP
Html /Xml … SW L10N ENG
Search & Replace
Fix bugs
Ultra-Edit
Communication
Trados Prepare Trans
English
Snag-it
Loc Tools Dev

Perl / VB / VC / Java Prepare Loc kit

Html /Xml …

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 Agenda

 SW L10N Engineering
 SW L10N Eng Tools
 SW L10N Eng Position
 Questions & Answers

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 SW Localization Engineering Positions

Re-build On-line help

On-line Help Eng

Re-compile
SW L10N Eng
Build Eng DTP
Fix bugs SW L10N ENG
Product Eng
DTP Eng

Prepare Trans

Loc Tools Dev

Loc Dev Prepare Loc kit

G11N Eng

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