Have you ever run into space issues with translations for iPhone or Android apps? I’m not talking about outer-space, the final frontier, but the space you have allocated for strings on the GUI. In many languages, especially German, French and Spanish, translations are often around 150% the length of the originals. Since mobile apps have […]
The most popular languages The most popular translation languages for mobile apps are French, Spanish, German, Japanese and Italian. We hardly have any projects that doesn’t include at least one of them. Simplified or Traditional Chinese? When translating to Chinese, we’re asked which Chinese variant to choose. There are about 1/2 billion people speaking both Traditional and Simplified Chinese, so it’s […]
The easiest way to run multilingual PHP sites is by using GetText .po (Portable Object) files. ICanLocalize makes translating GetText .po/pot files better and easier than any other way. Let me explain what the files are. POT – Portable Object Template. This is the file that you get when you extract texts from the application. […]
The smartphone industry is continuously moving and changing. From being a luxury 5 years ago, it seems now everybody and their dog owns one. Most apps are still only available in English. This is very surprising when you consider the enormous use of mobile technology in China, Japan, India and Europe. It is also on […]
All language service companies would love to get that one huge exclusive contract from a well-known international cooperation, however these cases are far and few between. Sure, ICanLocalize has some pretty big companies as clients but overall the volume of work we get from these compares negatively to our niche market – Small and Medium sized Enterprises […]
Many of our clients and translators have given us some fantastic feedback in 2012. ICanLocalize has not ignored this….in fact we have logged all of your suggestions and we now have a comprehensive list for improvements. Much will change over the course of this year!! The team is very excited about these changes. Hopefully you […]
We would like to share with you the work behind ICanLocalize. You may wonder at times why we take 20% commission from translators’ jobs and whether it’s fair. I used to be a translator at ICanLocalize myself before getting a job in Support and Marketing so I can imagine why you sometimes question this. So I […]
We are continually striving to make the ICanLocalize system simpler to use for both clients and translators alike. One of our major missions for 2013 is to take on board what our users have to say and to actually implement these changes. Today I will detail three that we recently implemented: Ordering Glossary by Name […]
Getting translation work from ICanLocalize is easy, safe and affordable. We translate for individuals, small businesses and large organizations. We will introduce you to professional translators, experienced in your site’s subject. Since our system automates the entire process, translators spend all their time translating. You will get excellent work at affordable rates. Pick translators from […]
We translate dozens of mobile applications every week and recently, we hit the 3,000 mark! The best way to expand the global appeal of your mobile app is by localizing it into key languages. Smartphones are making serious inroads in markets around the world. If you are not localizing, you are excluding millions of potential […]