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> "Meanwhile we were stuck translating into 20 European languages.” - Christophe Sapet (French entrepreneur)" That's such a bad excuse. There is nothing stoppi
by dgut 8y ago
> "Meanwhile we were stuck translating into 20 European languages.” - Christophe Sapet (French entrepreneur)"
That's such a bad excuse. There is nothing stopping them from executing in English, or in French in France in the first place. There are five major languages in Europe: English, Spanish, French, German and Italian. No startup starts doing business in >1 market, not even Uber/Google.
- Apocryphon 8y agoAny company interested in multinational growth should build localization into their app architecture to begin with, anyway. Then just contract out the actual act of translating the strings.
- dgut 8y agoBig difference between building localization into the app architecture and translating the app to 20 languages as a starting point, though.
- Apocryphon 8y agoSure, but the idea is that you can pay another service to do the translations. The main difficulty is supporting things like right-to-left text and other specific characteristics, but that shouldn't be a problem in Europe only.
- lordnacho 8y agoIt's not purely a question of translating the website. There might be different laws and customs depending on the domain.