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What is the preferred source if you are doing a localized version (say
French Canadian) and you already have English source and a "standard" French
translation? Is it better and/or cheaper to work from the English source or
from the French translation?
We'll also have the same issue with Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese.
I remember someone mentioned going from English->Hebrew->Russian rather than
English->Hebrew and English->Russian. That seems fraught with peril, but I'm
not sure when the localization is more a dialect than a separate language.
Yvonne DeGraw, Technical Services o Technical Writing
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Tel: 805/683-5784 o Database Publishing
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