Website Translation and Localization

Web Site Localization and localization involves more than the presentation of content in a foreign language. In addition to accurate translation, equally important is targeting the user population appropriately, taking such things into consideration as cultural nuances, appropriateness of graphics, and even color schemes.

Localization involves meeting both technical and linguistic challenges. From a technical standpoint all of the material must be considered, from user interface to how numbers, characters, and symbols must be presented in the local format.

Chinese Localization Center offers the following services for Web site and software localization:

	Assessment of server platform and software to ensure support for multilingual content
	Content revision and web page translation according to the culture of the target audience
	Resolution of issues related to character sets, particularly as they pertain to the display of Asian double-byte languages
	Configuration of page layout (e.g. right-to-left layout for languages such as Arabic and Hebrew)
	Modification of formatting parameters for dates, units of measure, quantities, etc.
	Conversion and testing of links to content in appropriate language(s)
	Assessment, alteration or elimination of inappropriate icons and images
	Testing of site for proper display of foreign language content on all browsers
	Ongoing maintenance including web page translation, editing, and localization of content as required content can be uploaded directly to a client's server or to a dedicated FTP site