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Current localization practices - like manually updating translated content or fixing on-line brand inconsistencies after the fact - will become increasingly unmanageable."

- Forrester Research Group, 1998

  • Localization (L10N) is the process of adapting a product to meet the language, cultural and other requirements of a specific target environment or locale. In the context of a Web site it requires adapting the look and feel of content so it has the same effect and clarity in one language as another.
  • Translation is the linguistic component of localization. Translation of Web content is the recommunication of a message from one language to another, but can include modifications to HTML text as well as metatags for search engines, resource files for Web applications, Web database content, graphics, and multimedia elements.
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