How to Plan for Text Translation

Jul 07, 2010 1 Comment by

I never thought about text expansion/contraction until I needed to have a course translated. Headings, titles, and buttons that worked fine in English suddenly ran out of space when getting translated.

When creating a course that will be in multiple languages you must plan upfront for the “room” that each language will need. Here is a great chart that gives some guidelines for text expansion/contraction.

(Thanks Globalization Group!)

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