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copied!<p>I'm not sure the platform you're internationalizing in. I've written an answer before on the best way to il8n an application. See <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59130/what-do-i-need-to-know-to-globalize-an-asp-net-application/59184#59184">What do I need to know to globalize an asp.net application?</a></p> <p>That said - managing the translations themselves is hard. The problem is that you'll be using the same piece of text across multiple pages. Your framework may not, however, support only having that piece of text in one file (resource files in asp.net, for instance, encourage you to have one resource file per language).</p> <p>The way that we found to work with things was to have a central database repository of translations. We created a small .net application to import translations from resource files into that database and to export translations from that database to resource files. There is, thus, an additional step in the build process to build the resource files.</p> <p>The other issue you're going to have is passing translations to your translation vendor and back. There are a couple ways for this - see if your translation vendor is willing to accept XML files and return properly formatted XML files. This is, really, one of the best ways, since it allows you to automate your import and export of translation files. Another alternative, if your vendor allows it, is to create a website to allow them to edit the translations.</p> <p>In the end, your answer for translations will be the same for any other process that requires repetition and manual work. Automate, automate, automate. Automate every single thing that you can. Copy and paste is <em>not</em> your friend in this scenario.</p>

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