Windows Phone App Localization

We're Ready for the New Wave

At Tethras, we believe in building a service that makes it easy to speak to your potential customers by providing support for all 50 Languages supported by Windows Phone 8. We accept all Windows Phone native file formats for localization and will return them to you in the same format after translation.

Windows Phone Localization Resource

You Give Us Your Native Source Files, We Give Them Back Translated

Source .resx file

‹data name="Delete_Txt" xml:space="preserve"›
  ‹value›delete‹/value›
  ‹comment›ContextMenu (xaml)‹/comment›
‹/data›
‹data name="EnterName_Name_TxtBlk" xml:space="preserve"›
  ‹value›Enter your name below:‹/value›
  ‹comment›xaml‹/comment›
‹/data›

Translated .resx file into French

‹data name="Delete_Txt" xml:space="preserve"›
  ‹value›supprimer‹/value›
  ‹comment›ContextMenu (xaml)‹/comment›
‹/data›
‹data name="EnterName_Name_TxtBlk" xml:space="preserve"›
  ‹value›Saisis ton nom ci-dessous :‹/value›
  ‹comment›xaml‹/comment›
‹/data›

We will extract your developer comments in the files and show them to our translators.

For a list of unsupported files and how to convert them more localization-friendly files visit our Files and Encoding section.

Resource files

Windows Phone File Types we Localize

  • .resx
  • .resw
  • .resjson
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  • all common file types (HTML, plain text, XML, etc. )

Tips and Tricks

Tips and Tricks

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