Localization本地化
Localization is the process of adapting content, products, or services for a specific language and regional market, often abbreviated as L10n. It goes beyond text translation to include locale-specific formats such as dates, times, currencies, and units, as well as cultural references, imagery, regulatory requirements, and user experience expectations that make a product feel native to the given target market.
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Where this term appears
Localization appears in software, website, game, and documentation projects where a product is prepared for new regional markets. Teams use localization kits, style guides, term bases, and CAT tools to manage files; later they run localization testing and in-country review to confirm that UI layout, date and currency formats, and cultural references work correctly in the target locale.
Translation checks
A common mistake is reducing localization to text translation and ignoring locale-specific formats, imagery, or non-linguistic requirements. This can produce a product that is understandable but feels foreign or even non-compliant in the target market, leading to poor adoption, regulatory risk, or costly rework after launch; a simple date format like 03/04 may be misinterpreted across locales.
Keep the term aligned across your files
Creative and consumer content needs accurate meaning as well as tone and context. Subtitles, interfaces and voice scripts also require checks for timing, character limits and pronunciation.
Provide approved terms and previous translations with the source files. Agree how variants, ambiguous wording and revisions will be reviewed. Terminology maintenance and any termbase handback are confirmed in the project scope. See the 8-step AI + expert workflow.
Related document experience
Kraft Foods
Transcription + dubbingEmployee-training video transcription and dubbing.
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Alexander Wang (Shanghai)
English ⇄ ChineseBrand documentation.
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Include the source and target languages, file types, intended use, deadline and any approved termbase. Agree handling before sending sensitive files. Acknowledged in 4 hours, quoted in 24.
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