is a place where something happens or is set and may also refer to cultural adaptation for specific countries, regions, or groups.
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How should keyboard mnemonics be localized?
Is there a standard approach to localizing (internationalize) keyboard mnemonics?
For example, in Windows Notepad in English, if the user types Alt+E then P, the Edit menu opens and then the Paste ...
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5answers
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Is it absolutely necessary to show the currently selected language in a language selector?
There are three choices of language. At least on mobile it would be nice if I could save a little space in the footer by omitting the currently active language. This seems risky though as it means the ...
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1answer
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How to provide translations alongside untranslated iframe?
I have a site that is translated into 4 languages.
We accept credit card information via an iframe (because we don't want to deal with PCI compliance, so we're letting a 3rd party receive and store ...
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2answers
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Save language preference for next visit?
We are creating a language dialog that suggest the user to change language based on the set browser language. E.g. if someone with browserlanguage ch-de visits our English website, a dialog at the top ...
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3answers
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Country/Region Specific locales: How much is it important?
In our website, we are providing more than one language choice, so users will be able to use the website if they knew any of these languages.
However, it surprised me that one site I've visited ...
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How do you sort/group a list of languages displayed in their native language? [duplicate]
I saw some discussions about internationalization and localization, and saw some examples of lists displaying languages written in that specific language. I think it is quite confusing to try and sort ...
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Language of language names in the language selector?
Imagine a site that's available in multiple languages. The language is detected automatically by looking at the IP or the browser header. But that's not bulletproof, so a few users might end up on a ...
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Which icon to use for location button? [closed]
We're a supermarket chain with more than 500 stores. The find stores function in our smartphone app (Android/iPhone) should have a button for finding stores near the user's current location. The ...
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3answers
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Why would users of an Arabic interface show an F pattern in eye tracking tests?
Why does eye tracking on the Arabic version of my interface show an F-pattern only 50% of the time? I had assumed it would show a reversed F-pattern because Arabic people read right to left.
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2answers
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Changing the language of a website
While travelling abroad, I often get pages on websites that are normally in English for me (e.g. images.google.com) served instead in whatever the local language is. The problem is that I can't read ...
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1answer
60 views
Rarely used translation function placement
I have just been looking at the analytics of one of the websites I work on, and one of the features is required - but rarely used. There is a Microsoft Translate button, with their "Powered by ...
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4answers
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Is there a nice way to deal with geo-restricted access?
In a site which, by law (or otherwise?), cannot display certain content in a particular geographic region, what's a good way to deal with this?
Hulu is pretty terrible (click here, seriously?):
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2answers
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Best Practice for Integrating Shared Cultural/Religious Calendars with Business Calendars
What is the most appropriate way to enable users integrate religious calendars and prayer times (Islamic Hijrah or Thai Solar for example) with the Gregorian calendars that might all can be shared ...
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UX Issues in doing Partial localization
I did see this question Translation strategy for only part of a site and though the points raised in that are helpful, they are not applicable in my context.
I am designing a site where there was a ...
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2answers
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Translation strategy for only part of a site
We'll soon be working on a new site for a small financial services company who offer quite bespoke and specialist services. They are English speaking but are started to get work from places such as ...
