Re: Is localisation obligatory?

Subject: Re: Is localisation obligatory?
From: yehoshua paul <yehoshua -dot- p -at- technicalwriting -dot- com>
To: David Harrison <dharrison -at- moldmasters -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 11:43:59 +0300

This article should help answer most of your questions.
http://www.stc-europe.org/2010/03/03/the-law-and-languages/

Yehoshua Paul,
www.technicalwriting.com

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 11:23 AM, David Harrison
<dharrison -at- moldmasters -dot- com>wrote:

> Our product is business-to-business and used on the factory floor. We have
> a large export market to Europe where we know that localisation to the
> language of that country is somewhere between "should" and "legally
> obliged" depending on the country. However there is a balance between
> "worth translating" and "not worth translating because the sales in that
> country has a poor projection" and we are at this point now with some
> countries.
> Does anyone know, for sure, in which European countries, apart from France
> and Germany, one is legally obliged to provide user/maintenance manuals in
> the local tongue rather than just recommended?
>
> Thanks Guys
>
> David
>
>
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