Apr 23 2008

Twitter ‘Secretly’ Localizing Website?

Jianjun
Published by Jianjun at 2:35 pm under Localization,Software,Translation,Web 2.0

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A few Twitter users reported today that they were seeing partially localized text on Twitter web interface. Currently, localized text strings are often mixed with English, and text language changes according to your browser settings.

The following picture shows Chinese with English when I used Safari Chinese version:

Here’s another screen shot showing French mixed with English when I viewed the page with my French version of FireFox:

And I have a feeling that they are still testing the pages before going on with the full-scale internationalization – anyway a nice development out there!

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