Internationalization is important for any software product that wishes to compete in the global marketplace. If it’s done wrong, it can be a hassle, but if done right, the investment is minimal, and everything goes smoothly. Like cooking and SEO, preparation is all important…

I finally hired a French translator to internationalize our software and add another language to our website. French is the test case (for me, since I’m new to this – we already have English, Simp. and Trad Chinese.) But we will be hiring Russian, Korean, Japanese and Spanish now that things are rolling, if you want to translate for us, or would like to request another language, let me know.

Here’s an outline of my prep:

Translators get paid by the word, so keeping word count low saves money – especially when you pay for each word five times! Aside from that, the most important thing is to have all things that are written kept in separate files.

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