15 tips: Localizing services for different countries

There are still borders on the political map of the world. In the world of the Internet, they have long been erased.

And your service, if it is really massive, can be used by an American, a Frenchman, an Argentinean or a Chinese. This means that you must take this into account when localizing your product.

And this is not at all as easy as it seems. It will not be possible to limit ourselves to just translating arrays of texts about the company and descriptions of services / goods.

Let's structure everything point by point:

1. In one country not only may it be, but rather and very quickly, more than one language will be required. For example, in Russia, Russian and English are required. In some regions, Tatar, Ukrainian, Bashkir is required. Features of the federal structure.

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