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What’s new in localization in Xcode 9 and iOS 11 – The developer and translator guide

June 19, 2017 Copywriter in San Francisco

Xcode 9 brings a surprising amount of localization updates that make it easy for developers to internationalize their apps. These changes are also helpful for the translators and localization compa

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What’s new in Xcode 6 Localization for iOS 8 and Yosemite

June 17, 2014 Copywriter in San Francisco 2 Comments

Xcode 6 brings XLIFF file format and new localization languages While developers are poring over the Xcode 6 beta released at WWDC 2014, we’ve been getting questions about some of the big cha

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iOS Language Codes: What do you name your .lproj folder?

May 6, 2013 Copywriter in San Francisco

Apple’s localization documentation is sometimes lacking. This is especially true for localization topics like language codes. We’ve put together a very handy chart to answer a surprisi

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Localizing Twitter vocabulary like “Follow” and “Tweet”

February 21, 2012 Copywriter in San Francisco 2 Comments

How does the world say Tweet? UPDATED: We’ve added lots more Twitter vocabulary and more languages in our iOS Localization Term Glossary! Facebook succeeded in turning “Likes” int

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Google and Bing Team Up to Make One Bad Translator

August 7, 2011 Copywriter in San Francisco 4 Comments

If you haven’t checked out Bad Translator, you don’t know what fun you are missing. Original text: “I think I’ll use Google Translate to localize my website so that everyone

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How far are we from an accurate machine language translation service?

May 2, 2011 Copywriter in San Francisco 3 Comments

Another question from Quora: How far are we from an accurate machine language translation service? As a professional translator, this is a topic that interests me greatly. I agree with Steven’

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How do two cultures with different languages learn to communicate at first contact?

April 15, 2011 Copywriter in San Francisco

Original question from Quora: How do two cultures with extremely divergent languages learn to communicate with each other at first contact? My thesis work was in Latin American studies, and as such

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