摘要： In the original English, of course, it looks as though these additional sentences and paragraphs cost nothing: The developers and writers do not charge extra for each additional word, and clever formatting can prevent additional words from boosting the page count in printed material. Furthermore, nobody ever got promoted for releasing a version of the product with the lowest wordcount in company history, because it seems such an irrelevant metric. 阅读全文

摘要： In other words, there is an expense-side and a revenue-side to the coin of localization. We also hear that many people in technology consider the process of delivering international products a “black box”. Accordingly, Part I of this paper explains the terms and steps in “Internationalization” and “Localization,” with a few grisly details that are second nature to translation professionals, but which look like a black box to most of their clients. 阅读全文