Dishwasher localization

Originally posted to Shawn Hargreaves Blog on MSDN, Friday, October 10, 2008

The latest post from James Silva discusses the drudgeful process of localizing Dishwasher.

This triggered a range of incoherent and rambling thoughts, which for some reason I am inspired to post here.

"Dang, this is a nasty bug!"

"Easy to fix though."

"But if we fix it, we'll have to change some text strings, and we have no time to get new translations back."

"Anyone know anyone who speaks German?"

"Nope."

"Hmm, I wonder..."

I'm embarrassed to admit, we actually shipped the game with a couple of error messages that were translated using Babelfish  :-)

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