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Gunnar Bittersmann
April 26, 2013
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Designing user experience for multilingual websites (Front-Trends 2013)
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Transcript
Projektowanie doświadczenia " użytkownika dla witryn wielojęzycznych Gunnar Bittersmann @g16n
Photograph by Emmanuel Huybrechts Taken from Wikimedia Commons Photograph by
Gunnar Bittersmann Painting by Joseph Karl Stieler Taken from Wikimedia Commons
Designing user experience" for multilingual websites Gunnar Bittersmann @g16n
Photograph by Emmanuel Huybrechts Taken from Wikimedia Commons Photograph by
Gunnar Bittersmann Painting by Joseph Karl Stieler Taken from Wikimedia Commons
Gestaltung des Nutzungserlebnisses" für mehrsprachige Websites Gunnar Bittersmann @g16n
Photograph by Emmanuel Huybrechts Taken from Wikimedia Commons Photograph by
Gunnar Bittersmann Painting by Joseph Karl Stieler Taken from Wikimedia Commons
Designing user experience" for multilingual websites Gunnar Bittersmann @g16n
Designing multilingual websites" for user experience Gunnar Bittersmann @g16n
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Localization ≠ Internationalization
Localization adaptation of a system for a specific region •
language related aspects – translations – different characters and scripts • cultural aspects – units, currencies – time and date formats – meaning of colors and symbols – suitability of images • legal requirements
Internationalization designing a system to be prepared to make localization
possible and easy.
Photograph by Mat Connolley Taken from Wikimedia Commons
Internationalization is not a feature. It is an architecture.” —Addison
Phillips, Chair W3C Internationalization WG “
i18n internationalization 18 localization 10 L10n a11y g16n accessibility 11
Gunnar Bittersmann 16
International websites Website for an international target audience monolingual multilingual
same content different content
RTFM Photographs by Gunnar Bittersmann
Select your language English Polish German Russian Spanish French Chinese
Select your language English polski deutsch русский español français தจ
Select your language English ▼
Berlin Photographs by Gunnar Bittersmann
Warszawa Photographs by Gunnar Bittersmann
Select your language English polski deutsch русский español français தจ
ह"दी !"#$%&ا ?
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GET /index.html HTTP/1.1 Host: example.net User-‐Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh;
Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv: 20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/ *;q=0.8 Accept-‐Language: en-‐us,en;q=0.8,de-‐de;q=0.6,de;q=0.4,pl;q=0.2 Accept-‐Encoding: gzip, deflate HTTP header
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Language negotiation • Provide your content in a language that
the user (most likely) understands • Provide the option to change the language English polski deutsch русский español français 中文 ह"दी !"#$%&ا
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Use UTF-8. Ever. Everywhere.
Używam wspaniałego webfonta.
First name Last name Ferenc Liszt Liszt Ferenc!
Ferenc Liszt Liszt Ferenc! Given name Family name
Van Zandt Given name Family name Steven
van Beethoven Given name Family name Ludwig
Guðmundsdóttir Given name Family name Björk
How shall we call you? Björk Guðmundsdóttir Name Björk
How shall we call you? Ludwig van Beethoven Name
Beethoven
How shall we call you? Steven Van Zandt Name
Little Steven
How shall we call you? Liszt Ferenc Name Ferenc
Email <input type="email"/> иван@россия.рф
Colors, Images
Acknowledgement Thanks to Richard Ishida for the many articles http://www.w3.org/International
webplatform.org
Photographs by Emmanuel Huybrechts (top left), Mat Connolley (bottom left),
painting by Joseph Karl Stieler, taken from Wikimedia Commons; center top and bottom photographs by Gunnar Bittersmann Ludwig van Beethoven Dziękuję.