Hi everyone, I'm new to this group and this is my first post.
I'd like to re-iterate a previously mentioned comment as I think it's
extremely important:
it may seem obvious, but in the experience I have had, the word docs
supplied by your translation company must use the Unicode font too. I would
specify this as a major requirement to the translation company. The company
that did my translations used a third party font (not Unicode) which turned
the job into a costly nightmare.
Hope this helps!
Steve.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of Frederic Fery
Sent: Wednesday, 20 October 2004 12:55 PM
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Subject: Re: [WSG] Foreign Translations
Hi Jason
I have similar requirement for some of my sites here at the Uni of
technology Sydney
is it indiscrete to ask you about the ball park those 2 companies gave
you? offlist?
do they charge per page per language?
regards
Frederic
On 20/10/2004, at 12:30 PM, Jason Foss wrote:
We've approached On-Call Interpreters in Melbourne and Precision
Languages
in Sydney. Both quotes came back in the same ballpark, and it's not a
huge
amount of text so the cost is not prohibitive.
Thanks also for that link Roger - seeing it in action helps a lot. (I
think... If only I could read Chinese!)
BTW - what makes you think the image thing was a joke? :o)
Cheers
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Behalf Of Herrod, Lisa
Sent: Wednesday, 20 October 2004 11:26 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [WSG] Foreign Translations
Jason,
I worked on a site a while ago that required translation into 14
different
languages. It was an education based portal that contained a lot of
text.
One of the issues we encountered was when documents were translated in
a
word document and then supplied to the development team to transfer
into a
HTML doc.
It might seem like an obvious problem now, but at the time it was one
of the
things that got us. this site had hundreds of pages of text to
translate
though. Yours might be a bit different.
Incidentally, do you mind telling me which translation agencies you've
approached? I have worked for quite a few of them in sydney and am
just a
bit curious :)
Hope that helps,
Lisa
ps haha funny joke about using a big image! :)
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From: Jason Foss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 11:10 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [WSG] Foreign Translations
Greetings!
I have a client who wants part of their website translated into a few
other
languages, some of them Asian (Chinese Korean are a couple). I have
obtained a couple of quotes from translation agencies to actually do
the
translations, but does anyone have experience with actually
implementing
this sort of thing in a website?
The easy way is to make an image out of the translation and pop that
there -
but I don't want to do that for obvious reasons!!! I'm reading a bit
about
character sets and encoding, but it's all a bit abstract at this
point. Any
experiences or how-to references would be much appreciated!
Ta
Jason
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Telephone: (07) 4927 8033
Facsimile: (07) 4927 5312
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