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- Title
International Variables: Translation Problems for the Localization of Web Apps.
- Authors
DE LA COVA, ELENA
- Abstract
In localization, international variables refer to source cultural elements that require a certain degree of adaptation in a target culture, such as date, time and number formats, currencies, colours, images, humor elements, etc. Although localization involves the adaptation of a digital product to a specific market, certain aspects of localization projects (i.e., source file formats, translation tools or project specifications) could become an obstacle to achieving the ultimate goal of localization, and may even give rise to errors or culturally inappropriate translations. This qualitative, interpretative study analyzes a corpus compiled from the online help pages of web applications to identify and describe potential translation problems caused by the adaptation of international variables in localization projects.
- Subjects
WEB-based user interfaces; CULTURE; HARD currencies; TIME; IMAGE
- Publication
Atlantis (0210-6124), 2023, Vol 45, Issue 2, p47
- ISSN
0210-6124
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.28914/Atlantis-2023-45.2.03