Challenges

Concatenated strings and US-oriented source text

The source text consisted of concatenated UI strings, with metadata and markers that needed to be placed correctly in each target language. The source text was US culture-oriented and the context was often unclear, so required thorough and careful translation. Narvar needed a localization expert that would design an efficient file management process, coordinate the contributions of 34 translators, and ensure each delivered language would be clear and effective back in the UI context.

Solution

A coordinated project team of expert translators and file engineers

The 3di team:

• Prepared the source files for translation, identifying, addressing and resolving source issues before translation.
• Identified specialist 3di translators for 34 languages.
• Simplified the process for resolving linguistic queries that helped improve the clarity of source text and ensured consistency across the team.
• Managed a Translation Memory (TM) for each language, providing Narvar with a valuable asset for future translations.
• Ensured the translatable text worked back in the UI context by protecting the file structures, metadata and tags.