Software localization is the process of adapting your software to the linguistic, technical, and cultural needs of different regions, ensuring that it feels native to users in every market.

Translation converts text from one language to another, while localization adapts the entire user experience—language, design, and functionality—to ensure cultural and technical relevance.

AfroLingo provides localization services for Android, iOS, Windows, Mac, Linux, and more, ensuring your software works seamlessly on any platform.

Localization allows your software to reach new markets, increasing user satisfaction, engagement, and ultimately driving more sales and revenue.

AfroLingo performs multiple types of testing, including UI testing (to ensure visual elements display correctly), linguistic testing (to verify accurate translations), and functional testing (to ensure the software performs as expected in all languages).

Our expert team of translators have a reputation of translating software products at a rate of 1500 – 1700 per day.

However, when it comes to volume, AfroLingo can assign as many translators as the project would require.  Further, we have the technology and the review capabilities that ensures consistency all through the software content whatever the number of linguists working on the project.

Above and beyond translation, we usually need 2 days for set-up and some more time for engineering and testing at the end of the project.

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Yes, AfroLingo helps developers prepare their software for localization by supporting internationalization, ensuring it can handle different languages, character sets, and locale-specific formats.

Yes, we have many types of software localization testing:

•       UI testing

Here, we make sure that no controls are truncated. Also, we test the shortcut keys, and make sure that the software product looks correct from a user viewpoint.

•       Linguistic testing

After localization is finished and the software is recompiled in the target languages, linguistically-focused testers should be testing the software to verify appropriate use of terminology in context, search for any incomplete translations, as well as check grammar and spelling.

•       Functionality testing

At this stage, we normally check for correct software operation (on top of the UI interface appearance).

•       Internationalization testing

Here, we concentrate on the executable software, check for the appropriateness of user input in various character sets. We also verify the accurate display and processing of locale-specific information, such as sorting, numbers, time & date formats, currency, etc.  

•       Compatibility testing

This is a crucial part of testing, as we here test the localized product with localized supporting applications, such as browsers, and target-language operating systems and. 

Translation rates and the prices of software localization services are based on the target language. At AfroLingo, however, rest assured that we have the most competitive rates in the entire industry.

An example of localization is adapting a US-based accounting software for Kenya. This would involve translating the English interface into Swahili, but also changing the currency symbol from Dollars ($) to Shillings (KSh), adjusting the tax calculation logic to meet Kenyan laws, and modifying date formats to DD/MM/YYYY.

The purpose of localization is to remove barriers to adoption. By making software localisation a priority, you ensure that international users can use your product intuitively, without feeling like second-class citizens. This drives higher adoption rates, reduces support costs, and increases global revenue.

Data localization refers to laws that require data about a nation’s citizens to be collected, processed, and stored within that country’s borders. In software localization management, this often means we must help you configure your software to store user data on local servers (e.g., within South Africa) to comply with regulations like POPIA or GDPR.