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| The purpose of retrofitting G11N applications is to attract more users by providing them with a familiar experience when visiting Web applications. In the meantime, the Web application itself should be maintainable and the retrofit should be cost effective.
G11N retrofit is different from developing a globalized application. The ‘80-20’ rule is also applicable. Globalizing the view layer may satisfy 80% of end users’ multi-language and multi-culture expectations, but the remaining 15% might take 80% of the G11N effort, and the final 5% will probably never be achieved.
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Machine Translation
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GAI Conformance
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Deployment
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take more effort |
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Development cost
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big |
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Translation quality
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perfect |
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Multi-culture
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don't support |
support many features |
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BiDi support
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no |
yes |
If you have any question on this topic, please contact global@us.ibm.com
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