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What is Locale

Handbook of Research on E-Learning Standards and Interoperability: Frameworks and Issues
It is a set of parameters that defines the user’s language, country and any special variant preferences that the user wants to see in user interface. Usually a locale identifier consists of at least a language identifier and a region identifier.
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Localising E-Learning Websites in the Semantic Web Era
Dimitris Kanellopoulos (University of Patras, Greece)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61692-789-9.ch014
Abstract
Recently, ontologies have been applied for localisation of e-learning content in order to promote existing learning services to semantic-aware and intelligent localisation services. This chapter presents a localisation-aware semantic e-learning approach to integrate multilingual content provision, learning process and learner personality in an integrated semantic e-learning framework. The author proposes an architecture for supporting localisation of e-learning content and describes a basis for further development of automatic localisation services that will be able to reason on top of such an explicit infrastructure.
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The Role of Transcreation in Corporate Communication: A Case Study in the US Healthcare Sector
Locale is understood as a group of users with specific linguistic and cultural characteristics for whom a multimedia product is intended.
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Localization, Culture, and Global Communication
A subset of a user’s environment that defines conventions for a specified culture (He et al., 2002; Herden, 2006; Kubota, 2003; Trager, 2006) which affects the representation of many concepts and objects. • Text representations (characters, punctuation, symbols, addresses, currency symbols ...); • Numerics (date/time, currency, telephone numbers, measures, decimal and list separators...); • Sequencing (character sorting order, character search orders, word wrap...); • Graphics (icons, banners, colors, buttons...); • Sounds (type, intensity,...); • Translation for geographic names
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Cultural Elements in Spanish SME Websites and Social Media: From Localization to Transcreation?
The target country and the language in which a product subjected to a localization process will be used and sold.
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Globalization of Consumer E-Commerce
The combination of language and dialect.
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