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Most localization projects fail before a translator sees a single string. Here is the engineering work that has to come first — and how to tell whether your codebase is ready.
A language team is a small organisation. It needs a purpose, a structure, a way in and a way up — otherwise it survives exactly as long as its most stubborn volunteer.
Gettext is nearly forty years old and still runs a large share of the free software world. Here is the whole pipeline, command by command, including the parts that bite.
“It reads fine” is not a quality process. This is how to score translations the way you score code — with a typology, a severity scale and reproducible examples.
RTL support is not `direction: rtl` and a shrug. It is a layout model, a text algorithm and a set of mirroring decisions — and most of the bugs live in mixed-direction strings.
Machine translation is a genuinely useful tool and a genuinely effective way to destroy a volunteer community's trust. The difference is entirely in how you introduce it.
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