Translation

Doing secure offline machine translation with macOS

Machine translation has come a long way since researchers figured out that it was better to translate phrases than individual words.

Which natural languages should you support?

I have long been an advocate for localization (even if I am somewhat behind with translating the older content on this site into French).

My translation workflow

Last week, I wrote about how I added localization to my website.

Adding languages to a Hugo site

I’m a long-term advocate for localization, but this site has been monolingual for over a year now.

Creating documentation in XML

If your documentation has reached the limits of what’s possible in Markdown, and you’d prefer not to fall back to HTML, it’s time to consider authoring in XML.

How to offend most of your international users all at once

We love icons. They’re a great way to convey information simply, even if many of them are skeuomorphs from a bygone age.

Converting JSON string collections to binary assets for non-UTF-8 compliant devices

Last time I wrote about localization with Weblate. This week, I’ll show how the SE Basic IV project takes JSON output from Weblate and converts it into binaries that can be used with 8-bit code pages by the interpreter.

Doing continuous translation with Weblate

This week, I want to give a shout-out to Weblate, a web-based translation tool with Git integration that’s available free to open source projects.

Writing for a global audience

At the end of last week, I attended a conference in Budapest.