Technical Capabilities

In addition to our linguistic expertise, Localize is dedicated to being the technological leader in the localization industry. Our commitment to technology enables our translators to focus on providing the best localization possible rather than the code that surrounds and enables its publication.

As part of the Silicon Valley community, we remain in constant contact with the most up-to-date concepts and tools available to the industry. Our location augments our ongoing efforts to develop, automate, and refine thelocalization process as we strive to make the process simpler, faster, and more cost-effective.

International specialists all, we have in-house engineers, IT specialists, and developers.

Technical Functions
  • Identification, separation and re-integration of text strings
  • Resizing/reformatting dialog boxes
  • Help formatting
  • Builds and compilation
  • Interactive (concatenated) strings
  • Embedded text identification
  • Programming fixes
  • Consistency validation
  • Functional testing
  • Screen capture
  • Graphic .ini resizing
  • Character set encoding
  • Single-sourcing conversions
Development Tools
  • Microsoft .Net
  • Microsoft Visual C++
  • Microsoft Visual Basic, ASP
  • RoboHelp
  • HTML Help
  • Java
  • AppleGlot
  • Apple Help
  • PowerGlot
Asian language software double-byte/multi-byte enabling

We are experienced with all of the Unicode variants, double-byte enabling and the Asian language capabilities of development environments such as Microsoft .Net

We can fulfill all character set encoding requirements.  Examples include but are not limited to: UNICODE, UTF 8, UTF 16, EUC, ISO, and language-specific encoding such as Shift-JIS.

Platform Knowledge
  • PC (Windows XP, 2003, 2000, CE)
  • Macintosh System X
  • UNIX (Solaris, SCO, Linux)
  • Java
Graphics Capabilities
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe Premier
  • Macromedia Flash
  • Macromedia Director
DTP/Lahyout capabilities
  • FrameMaker
  • PageMaker
  • Adobe Acrobat
  • QuarkXpress
  • Word for Windows and Macintosh
  • WebWorks