Posted in internationalisation on Feb 20th, 2009
Reading specifications isn’t always at the top of everyone’s to-do list but if you’re working on the web and need to pinpoint the exact usage of HTML or CSS quite often you find yourself buried in a spec trying to figure something out. This is all well and good if your native language is English [...]
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Posted in internationalisation, Mobile on Apr 23rd, 2008
A Japanese version of Twitter was launched today making this the first alternative language version for the site. I find it interesting that Japanese is the first language that the site has been localised in but as Twitter reported in their blog they were noticing a high volume of users and Twitters originating from Japan [...]
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Posted in internationalisation on Mar 6th, 2008
Google desktop recently moved out of beta and added Thai and Indonesian to it’s language bank bringing the total of translations up to 31. If you don’t already use Google Desktop it’s worth checking out as it allows you to carry out text searches of your emails, computer files, music, photos, chats, web pages viewed [...]
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