Globalization Insider

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LISA’s Annual Meeting 13-14 May, Dublin (premium)
Language, IT and the European Single Market • Rose Lockwood, Ovum Ltd., London
The Eurolang Machine Translation Project (premium) • Bernard Seite, Eurolang Scientific Director
Some Issues Associated with Handling Double-Byte Character Sets (premium) • Jan Pfefferkorn, Director, Language Automation Inc.
XL8: The Next Generation (premium) • Claudio A. Pinkus, President, IDOC USA

XL8: The Next Generation

Claudio A. Pinkus, President, IDOC USA

In the spring of 1991, IDOC were faced with the task of translating certain printer drivers into a variety of languages. As is typical for the computer industry, the code for the drivers kept changing while we were busy translating the alerts and dialogs. Our clients kept delivering new code to our engineers, who then laboriously copied the strings and other resources from the previous version to the latest version.

This task required an enormous and costly effort. As a result of that experience we wrote XL8 - now known as XL8 SuperPro - arguably, one of the most advanced software localization systems in use today.

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