Pixel by Pixel: Localizing Display Texts

Most technical appliances with displays ?from coffee machines to various types of vehicles? are manufactured for the international market. However, the compact size often makes the localization of display texts a formidable challenge, as translators need to observe text length or pixel count restrictions as well as font characteristics. This lecture describes how texts can be adapted to a limited display size and the respective layout even during the translation process, thereby avoiding time-consuming review processes.