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nodata on Jan 15, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Localization Horror Story: It Could Happen to Yo...

What if the text wasn't a sentence?

bmn_ on Jan 15, 2015 [–]

If the text is not a whole sentence or paragraph, it cannot be accurately translated anymore into a number of languages with different word order.

As a programmer with i18n responsibilities, you learn to identify and fix fragmented text problems first.

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