Global by Design

The Kindle 3 was announced last evening. The big news about the device is the price — starting at $139. You could argue that this is the first mass-market e-reader. Of course, going truly mass market means going multilingual. Last year, I asked where was Kindle’s support for non-Latin characters. I was happy to find [...]

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Translation memory helps companies re-use previously translated text, improving consistency and potentially saving money. But translation memory requires using translation memory software, which has for years largely meant using SDL Trados software. When a company hires a translation agency and requires that they use translation memory — not only must that agency have Trados software, [...]

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From SharePoint to Documentum to Interwoven, Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software provides the information infrastructure for  large enterprises, both internally and externally. And although most ECM developers will eagerly say their software is “global” — not all software is equal when it comes to supporting all languages and locales. As one point of reference, SharePoint [...]

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I’ve been writing this blog since 2002. Back when I started out, I wasn’t sure how long I would stick with this “blogging” thing and I didn’t really want to make any investment in software (besides time). I tried a few different platforms before settling on WordPress. It was free — certainly a selling point. [...]

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I recently got around to upgrading to Snow Leopard. Along the way, I discovered a rather interesting bug. It’s not a huge deal, but a bug nonetheless. And one likely to cause a fair amount of confusion. First of all, if you have never modified your language settings (The “International” button on the System Preferences [...]

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