Globalization Insider

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Fools For Tools (premium) • Clove Lynch, Jean-Michel Gouriou, Tom Cummins & Jim Renwick, ILE/ICR
Director’s letter (premium) • Michael Anobile
LISA Profiles Claudio Pinkus
Towards Second-Generation Translation Memories • Dr. Emmanuel Planas, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
End-to-End Business Globalization (premium) • Ed Deveau, Nortel Networks, Inc.
Chinese is not Chinese! (premium) • Peter Stumpf, General Manager, STAR Software (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
The Challenge of Globalizing Websites (premium) • Eric Silberstein, CEO, Idiom Technologies
Bi-directional Languages (premium) • Wafaa Mohiy, Saudisoft Co. Ltd.

Bi-directional Languages

Features and Challenges

Wafaa Mohiy, Saudisoft Co. Ltd.

Arabic is the primary language of more than 20 countries in the Middle East with a total population of 250 million. What is more, the Middle East offers one of the world's fastest growing economies. Nevertheless, a number of the features of the Arabic language-starting with the direction in which it is written-make localization less than trivial. In this article, Wafaa Mohiy provides an overview of some of the issues involved.

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