Software Localization

In contrary, software documentation files (Windows Help format HLP, HTML Help format CHM, Web pages HTML or Adobe Acrobat PDF), Software Localization contain much more translatable text in much longer text strings. These files are usually better handled by a translation memory (TM) software, which memorizes already used phrases, typically segmented by full-stops and enable their recycling. TM software usually implements some fuzzy match algorithm to identify the degree of concordance between a new and an already translated segment and allows their insertion into and editing in the authoring environment.In localization, the visible part of the software, the user interface, is usually simply called software per sec. In properly developed software, the texts the user sees are included in separate files, the so-called resource files. They contain everything the user is likely to see and that is not created when the program actually runs (at run time): menus, dialog boxes, error messages, bitmaps, cursor shapes and so on. help files are resources, too, but they are usually treated differently.