Cultural assumptions and localization tailoring
Résumé
The localization industry (L10n), becoming a key issue for manufacturers and international markets operators, is strengthening its position within the international context, reinforced by the two prevailing phenomena of Globalization (G11n) and Internationalization (I18n). L10n is, in fact, a common claim to respond to grass-root users’ minimal expectations and subtle cognitive requirements while dealing with automated information systems and computer interfaces without breaking ties with the larger scope of I18n. All the peculiarities of local markets and consumers have been deeply treated by the scientific literature, the international standards, recommendations and RFCs. However, some of them, related to complex scripts like Arabic, remain undocumented or biased although their importance for a wider acceptance and a larger spread of the technical products marketed. This document is trying to shed light on some of these undocumented and biased aspects of L10n when confronted with cultural assumptions of the Arabic world. A one major issue is addressed: bi-directionality of numbers and dates and the diversity of their manipulation.
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Licence : CC BY - Paternité
Licence : CC BY - Paternité