[Ads-l] OT: Another one bites the dust.

[Benjamin Barrett]

> Il giorno 30 set 2015, alle ore 15:07, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> ha scritto:
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> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 12:34 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> "Amazon.de is now available in English!"
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> That is, Amazon.de is in the process of developing a version of its site
> entirely in English exactly parallel to the one in German, despite the
> existence of Amazon.com and Amazon.uk and the fact that only a single ID
> and password is needed to do business with any Amazon on earth.
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> The English-language version is still in beta, so Amazon.de isn't truly
> "available in English," but it's close enough for government work.

That feature has been available for the Japanese Amazon for as long as I can remember:

Just go to http://www.amazon.co.jp/ <http://www.amazon.co.jp/> and select “In English.”

AFAIK, it just means there are people who aren’t literate in Japanese but want to order things from the Japanese Amazon. It seems like a normal development to me.

Localization is a never-ending process because people want all kinds of permutations.

Benjamin Barrett
Formerly of Seattle, WA

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