We can localize your software and translate your user manual. Remember: most software users may not feel confident with English! Our experienced staff will manage the localization process for you. We can localize your software into the most spoken languages of the world.

The software industry has profited greatly from economic globalization. The vast non-English market clearly holds great potential opportunities for your products. ByteTranslation can help you make your program multilingual. Your software and its documentation will be translated into the target languages, ready for distribution in new markets.

Localization is more than just translation

When you localize your software, more goes into it than just translation. Localization requires completely converting the text intended for one kind of audience to a completely different one. There are many aspects involved besides the country's language: date and time formats, how to express numbers, currency symbols, etc. Language translation must be coupled with a necessary sensitivity to cultural differences.
Our project managers, software engineers and translation teams have a knowledge of localization issues that has passed the test of experience and use.

Internationalization Support

We will help you all along the way in adding internationalization support to your software. From a programming point of view, the first step is to identify the strings in your package source code that should be translated and those that shouldn't. Then we create resource files in order to keep the programming and the translation work separate and independent of one another.
Obviously, if your software is already internationalized, we will just focus on the localization process.
ByteTranslation will localize all the components that are needed to add a new language to your software package (resource files, user interfaces, icons, audio, online help and documentation).

Confidentiality

Our translators and software engineers are bound by a Non-Disclosure Agreement. ByteTranslation takes privacy and confidentiality issues very seriously. Source code and other intellectual property are kept strictly confidential.

Other services:

• Document Translation
• Website Translation and Localization

Internationalization and Localization

Internationalization (also called I18N) is an operation that makes a program or web service application aware of and able to support multiple languages. This is a generalization process in which the programs are freed from only calling English strings and from other English-specific processes, and are instead connected to generic ways of doing things.

Localization (also called L10N) is the process of translating software or a web site from one language into another. Localization requires completely converting the text intended for one kind of audience to a completely different one. There are many aspects involved besides the country's language: date and time formats, how to express numbers, currency symbols, etc. Language translation must be coupled with a necessary sensitivity to cultural differences.

ByteTranslation will handle the internationalization and the localization process for you!