Facebook Platform to help apps internationalize into local languages
Just a day after Facebook launched a Spanish language website, Sasha Rush of Facebook said today that Facebook intends to help application developers internationalize their apps for users in different locale settings by making available some of the same tools Facebook has employed to translate its own site. Said Rush,
In addition to shipping some of strings off to be translated, we used FBML to wrap all of our static text. When a bilingual user comes to the site, she sees untranslated English strings marked with a red link and can translate them inline.
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