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Per N. Dohler


Per N. Dohler has been an independent translator between English and German since 1984. He specializes in information technology software localization and the Internet as well as dentistry medicine medical technology and pharmacology. He lives and works in Barendorf in Northern Germany where he and his wife Thea run their small service company Triacom serving customers in the U.S. Germany and a number of other countries.
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» Facets of Software Localization
By Per N. Dohler | Published 06/2/2005 | Localization and Globalization | Not yet recommended
Information technology not only offers us tools. It is itself a field in which more and more translation work is actually performed. This is certainly true of other fields like marketing materials, packaging materials, advertising copy, and manuals. But in the case of information technology products, it is frequently the products themselves that need to be translated. Whenever a program or process displays a word or a phrase on the screen, this means potential work for a translator or many translators.
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