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Cracking the Belarusian Code: My Experience With the FreeAllWords Initiative
The FreeAllWords initiative has given me a platform to promote Belarusian literature and to encourage authors in exile.
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War in Ukraine spurs decline in Russian-language use, survey shows
Just a few months before the war began, 26% of Ukrainians claimed to use Russian as their primary home language. This survey says that number's fallen to just 13%.
Localization
Why we say “Kyiv” and not “Kiev”: The difficulty of translating place names
Ukraine has become the center of the media’s attention in recent weeks, and while more people seem aware of the connotation of referring to it as “the Ukraine,” another question has popped up regarding the way we refer to Ukraine’s capital: Kyiv or Kiev?
Localization
Russia allows companies extra time to adhere to new localization law
Last summer, the government of Russia adopted a law requiring certain large tech companies to adopt a wide-reaching localization protocol. While the law officially went into place on Jan. 1, the country recently announced that it would be lenient in imposing any penalties during the early days of 2022, in order to accommodate companies that have yet to implement the law’s requirements.
Technology
VKontakte Sets Sights on English-speaking Audience, Launches NMT
VKontakte, a popular social media network in Russia and other Russian-speaking regions, has recently launched its own neural machine translation (NMT) model for translating...
Business
Translation’s role in cybersecurity
Data security hackers are out there and they don't all speak English.
That's the crux behind cloud email security platform Avanan's multilingual approach to phishing,...
Business
Number Isn’t Up for Global Website ASCII URLs
Nice piece on NPR (U.S. National Public Radio) called Chinese Find Number URLs Easier Than Letters. The piece has some interesting examples from China about...