Ask your translators to do a global once-over QA pass once in a while to detect inconsistencies and weirdness. Once I dealt with a product that had three tabs, and two of the tabs were translated identically. Each tab header translation made sense on its own, but as distinct tab headers side by side, it made no sense to use the same word.
Even the very big ones get this wrong. I believe AliExpress still uses the same translation in Dutch for the word “register” as they do for “login” (both can be translated as “aanmelden”). Kind of an important distinction.
Seems like this should be so easy to detect (look for duplicates on the right hand side of the translations where there are none on the left).
Oh I’ve seen that AliEx one. Apparently the word “sign in” in Chinese and “sign up” in Japanese happens to share the literal(“登録”), and it’s the exact same binary in UTF-8, so some software might have no clue about that.
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Even the very big ones get this wrong. I believe AliExpress still uses the same translation in Dutch for the word “register” as they do for “login” (both can be translated as “aanmelden”). Kind of an important distinction.
Seems like this should be so easy to detect (look for duplicates on the right hand side of the translations where there are none on the left).
Oh I’ve seen that AliEx one. Apparently the word “sign in” in Chinese and “sign up” in Japanese happens to share the literal(“登録”), and it’s the exact same binary in UTF-8, so some software might have no clue about that.