Right-to-left is not a flag you flip
The first time I shipped an Arabic locale, I thought the work was translation plus one TextDirection . The translation was the easy half. What took…
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Terminology drift is the quiet tax on a large content corpus
Translation bugs that crash are easy. You find them, you fix them, they stay fixed. The expensive problem is slower: the same concept, translated th…
Multi-Currency Invoice PDF Localisation Explained: Right-to-Left Layout Before Signing
Short answer: for multi currency invoice PDF localisation, generate from structured values, validate the right-to-left visual reading order, and onl…
What breaks when you ship to ten locales at once
I localized a mobile app into ten languages. Most of what I'd read beforehand was about how to translate. Almost none of it was about what goes wron…
Designing for people reading in their second language
Most people using the products I work on are preparing for a US licensing exam in a language that isn't their first. Many are studying after a full…
Choosing NMT or LLM Translation Per Request in a Production Workflow
Translation APIs increasingly expose more than a single translate endpoint. Microsoft’s 2026 Translator migration guide documents a choice between n…
What Shipping Hebrew RTL Actually Takes: Anatomy of an 11-Language Release
Everybody "supports multiple languages." Almost nobody ships Hebrew. When we closed the v3.131.x line on MeshCtx — an open-core (AGPLv3) memory laye…
The Godot Course I Wanted Was in Spanish: Why I Built This Instead of Buying Dubbing
The best Godot course I could find was in Spanish. I don't speak Spanish. Subtitles are the obvious answer and they do not work here. For a talking…
Localizing SaaS Applications: What Developers and Writers Get Wrong
Localizing SaaS Applications: What Developers and Writers Get Wrong The demo goes live in Tokyo. Dates are formatted as MM/DD/YYYY . Currency shows…
Japanese App Store Screenshots: Why Direct Translation From English Doesn't Work
Japanese App Store Screenshots: Why Direct Translation From English Doesn't Work Localizing your app for Japan? If you just ran your English screens…