Internationalization
Preparing your Applications for World Markets
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As you add cultures and languages to your product rollout plans, it's important to ensure you're designing your applications so they can be easily adapted for these new domains. Internationalization (I18n) is a crucial first step toward producing a globally acceptable software product.
I18n (the industry abbreviation representing the 18 letters between "I" and "n") involves designing, building, and reengineering a software application so it can be easily adapted for various target languages — without requiring subsequent changes to the core application. The adaptation of a product to a language and culture is a process known as localization (L10n).
Benefits of Internationalization
Internationalization helps improve your product's performance in all of its target markets—keeping customers satisfied and ensuring they'll buy your product again. Other benefits of internationalization include:
Faster time-to-market: Internationalization enables the simultaneous release of software in all target markets.
Increased development bandwidth: When you internationalize your applications, additional software development is not needed to localize them. This frees your developers to work on other products.
Time and cost savings: Sometimes, localization is not possible without internationalization, or is cost prohibitive. Internationalization creates a launching point for more efficient and cost-effective localization. |
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Contact Lionbridge when...
- You want to support locales beyond Western Europe
- You lack the internal resources to internationalize
- You have a product with language-specific functionality that needs to be modified for new markets
- You're developing a new product and want to internationalize it correctly
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Internationalization Services at Lionbridge
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- I18n Audit: a discovery phase where we locate and identify all i18n issues
- I18n Training: these courses are introductions to I18n, including best practices and standards
- I18n Code Implementation (Enabling): hands-on source code modification to address issues found during the audit phase
- I18n Consulting: we help you identify problems and recommend the most effective plan of action - especially helpful for companies that are initiating new global product development where source code does not exist
- I18n Testing: we ensure your application's international functionality (including localization features) conforms to internal and industry specifications
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Choose Lionbridge
Experience: As the leading provider of translation and localization services, Lionbridge has delivered internationalization services since 1993. Because i18n is a critical first step in producing a globally acceptable software product, our goal is to educate our customers on how to develop global-ready applications that are ultimately easier and less expensive to localize.
Experts: Our internationalization services team is made up of highly-skilled, full-time staff members located around the world, with a core team based in Boulder, Colorado. Lionbridge's global footprint, spanning offices in 26 countries, ensures you have access to i18n services and training no matter where you are located.
Expertise: Because we specialize in translation, localization, and internationalization, Lionbridge offers clients a complete set of market-ready services, ensuring your products perform as advertised in any language, in any region of the world.
Contact Lionbridge
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