HANDS-ON: CHINESE AND JAPANESE

Overview

This is the fourth of six Hands-On chapters; by now, you have completed Hands-On chapters for Spanish; French, Italian, and German; and Russian. Collectively, these chapters demonstrate the process and challenges of localizing an English-language web page into multiple languages. After completing all the Hands-On chapters, you will have localized one web page into eight languages—the languages spoken by more than 80% of the world’s population. If you’d like to try your hand at these exercises, all files used in these chapters are available for download; go to www.bytelevel.com/beyondborders.

For a full list of country and language codes, see Appendix D.

Speakers worldwide (source: Ethnologue, 14th ...

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