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| HOW TO DO A QUICK QA OF YOUR TRANSLATED WEB SITE | |||
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| By Felicia Bratu Even if you don’t speak the languages in which your website has been translated, you still can do a quick screen check of all the pages to see if everything looks OK. • Check if all the pages have been translated and the final files are delivered in the same format like the source files provided. • Check for missing translation: If your site is relatively small, you could even check if all the paragraphs have been translated and there isn’t any missing text. This sounds like a process that can’t be done without knowing the target language, but you could visually appreciate if there is something missing: check the punctuation, look after numbers, and spaces between paragraphs; if one paragraph in the English version has 5 sentences, then your German version should also have 5 sentences. For some languages like Hindi or Burmese it will be a little more challenging to delimitate the sentences, but not impossible (check this article - Punctuation by languages - for more info about sentences separators). • Text displays properly: make sure that the translator used the right character encoding. To check on this, you can open the html file in Notepad (don’t use Word, you won’t be able to see the tags) or open the html page in Internet Explorer and got to View/Source. The preferred encoding now is UTF-8; it can represent characters of the widest range of languages. GB2312 is the registered internet name for a key official character
set of the People's Republic of China, used for simplified Chinese
characters.
• Make sure that Arabic languages are displayed from right to left.
• Check if the company
name, trademarks, others things that suppose to stay
in source language are preserved through the entire website; have
a glossary of terms that should stay in English.
• Date and time conversion: In most European countries, a.m. and p.m. are not used, and a good number of people might not know what this is supposed to mean as they use the 24-hour system to indicate exact times. When using two digits each to represent year, month, and day, for some languages, the actual date might not be very clear. A single date in the format “01/02/06” could be interpreted as three different dates
• Functionality: Check if all the links are working; this process also can be done automate with some special software. • Check if your web pages display properly on Internet Explorer and also on Nescape Navigator; verify how your website works on different platforms
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| Translation of: 404 FILE NOT FOUND | |||
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| Opa! The page you are looking for is no longer
here, or it has been moved! 1101010100001000000100011001001111010101010100111001000100 . -- Binary Source: http://www.wikinerds.org/404.html
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