Localizarea interfeţelor de utilizare: o provocare sau un simplu exerciţiu de weekend?
Localizing user interfaces: A challenge or just a weekend exercise?

Summary/Abstract: Localizing the dialogues when running an operating system or an application has become an interesting activity over the last two decades. The breathtaking spread of computer technique has led to a larger and larger use of computers, which has thus reached social strata with a lower level of linguistic capabilities, even if we refer to English. The real number of those capable of mastering English at a good level is lower than currently acknowledged. The paper focuses on an activity rarely approached as a university discipline in Romania, even if it clearly represents a chapter — or a subchapter at the worst — of translation techniques. Translating the computer dialogues has remained an isolated, not rarely chaotic activity, without any coherent approach and without any norms. The users, mainly those without a good knowledge of English, are the direct and innocent victims of such a situation. The paper, seemingly the first such approach in the field, sums up the main problems and suggests some further steps in order to improves the current situation.

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