Globalization Trends

Working 9-5 you tend to focus on individual tasks ignoring the generalities that exist within your field. Listening to John Yunker discuss web globalization trends in a recent webinar was a good reminder of what is occurring in the localization industry every day. Here are a few developments taking place within web globalization to improve business worldwide.

Internationalized Domain Names

Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) are domain names denoted by local language characters. These domain names can use non-ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) characters such as Japanese or Arabic. Localized domain names were originally proposed in 1996 by Martin Dürst at the University of Zürich.

Localization QA Tester or Translator?

Can a translator do the job of a localization QA tester and vice versa? While there is no straight answer, you should definitely think twice before giving your translation project to a localization QA tester or asking your translator to do a quality check on a localized web site.

It is amazing how many people assume that if someone speaks a foreign language they can perform translation as well; it is equally common to assume that a translator is qualified to be a localization QA tester.

How to import a comma delimited list into a MySQL table

Importing a comma delimited list (any kind of delimited list actually) to a MySQL database is a fairly straight forward process. Using a short SQL query you can easily have your table populated with the delimited list.

What is needed?
Delimited list file - If your data is in a different format like an Excel Spreadsheet, you should first export it as a delimited list.
phpMyAdmin - to make life easier. You can of course run the query from the command line