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by flohofwoe 1695 days ago
It's crazy that there isn't more support to simplify and standardize localization workflows in operating systems, SDKs, tools and file formats. IME a localization workflow today doesn't look much different than in the 90's, it's still mostly built around your own custom tools (or in some cases, framework-specific tools like the ones provided by Qt). Thinking about it, a high quality, human(!) translation service (no machine learning bullshit) for apps would actually be a feature where Apple or Google could justify their 30% fee.
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Hi, one of the authors here. ICU format from Unicode and Format.js libraries definitely simplify our localization workflow. However, the main challenge is to empower designers and engineers to create impacts without any i18n blockers and to allow translators to get meaningful context and therefore deliver accurate translation