Re:Startup Nation? Entrepreneurs Still Toil in Macron's France
by lordnacho on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @02:07PM
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It's not purely a question of translating the website. There might be different laws and customs depending on the domain.
Re:Startup Nation? Entrepreneurs Still Toil in Macron's France
by Apocryphon on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @01:02PM
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Any 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.
Re:Startup Nation? Entrepreneurs Still Toil in Macron's France
by dgut on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @01:56PM
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Big difference between building localization into the app architecture and translating the app to 20 languages as a starting point, though.
Re:Startup Nation? Entrepreneurs Still Toil in Macron's France
by Apocryphon on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @02:09PM
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Sure, 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.
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.