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Localizing to right-to-left languages: main issues and best practices

This video was recorded at W3C Workshop: The Multilingual Web - the Way Ahead, Luxembourg 2012. Internationalization and Localization efforts need to take extra care when dealing with right-to-left languages due to specific features those languages have. Many localization issues are specific to right-to-left languages. The talk will try to categorize those issues that face localizers when dealing with right-to-left languages with special focus on text direction part and handling bidirectionality. The talk will also mention best practices and areas for improvements.

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Science and Technology / Computer Science

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Material Type:: Presentation
Date Added to MERLOT:: February 10, 2015
Date Modified in MERLOT:: February 10, 2015
Author:: Murhaf Hossari, University College Dublin
Submitter:: The Open Education Consortium
Primary Audience:: College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division
Technical Format:: Video

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Language:: English
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Creative Commons:: This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States