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LangBox International has been involved in several
projects with application software houses and computer
manufacturers. A typical customer for LangBox International
is a US or European company who has won a project in a foreign
country, such as the Middle East, Greece or Korea, and need
to localise it’s specific Unix based software application
to this new target local market. Adding a very specific Complex
Language Support to an existing application which is stable
and bug free in English can become an issue for development
groups who have knowledge in their domain and but their solutions
are not localized or ready for the International market
The
main services offered by LangBox International are :
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LangBox International product porting (on other UNIX platforms)
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The
Porting Service allows you to get LangBox
International product on other UNIX
environments such as HP/UX, IBM AIX or on other Operating
Systems (we realized for instance porting for DEC VMS, OpenVMS,
PowerPC or for specific applications (GIS, RDBMS forms,
Browser,...) on these platforms). This operation consists
mainly in recompiling the LangBox Suite of Products on the
new target environment and then customize it for the specific
environment which includes system libraries, architecture,
calling sequence, API, default display devices, font, keyboard
layout, packaging format, etc. and then run the QA test
process.
| Specific
Input/Output device support (terminal, printer, plotter...)
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This
service allows adding the support of a specific device (printer,
plotter, display terminal, terminal emulator...) under the
LangBox International products environment. Most of the
time, it consists of a specific font development (or a fontset)
which will be either soft downloaded to the device, or burned
into a PROM. Some "unusual" requests for magnetic flat panels
used in Airports or Touch screen LCD devices have already
been supported.
| Consulting
and system architecture design in Application localization
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Mainly
used by Software houses, this service allows you to benefit
from the know-how of the LangBox International team in the
implementation of Internationalization and Localization
of UNIX applications. LangBox can depute some team members
worldwide to study and assist in the domain of Internationalization
and Arabization. In most cases, a majority of the problems
are resolved through telephone conferences and/or email
exchange with a hourly support fee.
| Specific
font creation (Bitmap, BDF, Type1, CID...) |
For
specific projects and customers, LangBox International has
also developed additional fonts to the basic fontset which
are avail;able with Runtime licenses (See
a sample set). These fonts are high quality design fonts
that can be delivered in: several weights, sizes, spacing
and format (TrueType, Type 1, Type 3, BDF, PCF, CID, Hershey,
Bitmap, etc...)
| Translation
and localization of application menus and messages |
LangBox
International provides developers, software houses, systems
integrators, etc. with high quality software menus, messages
and manuals translation. In addition, the LangBox team members
are fluent in and have knowledge of Arabic, Farsi, French,
German, and Vietnamese, LangBox maintains a list of highly
qualified translator for several other languages.
| Internationalization
Tools |
Also,
for it own development purpose, LangBox International has
developed a suite of Internationalization
tools that are useful for ‘C" Application localization
process. These tools are available under our Internationalization
Development packages
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