First published in Everything You Need to Know About Locales
Once upon a time, when I was a senior developer in the Windows group at Microsoft, I was sent to the Far East to help download the FE version 3.1. This was my introduction to software localization - basically, they pushed to the deep end of the pool and told how to learn to swim. Here I learned that localization is much more than translation.
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