Review multilingual publishing
Preserve regional differences while making the review consistent across several languages.
- Goal
- A review plan that names its languages, conventions and remaining coverage gaps.
- Starting profile
- Profile appropriate to the job
- Include
- Typography + Styles
Prepare a representative pass
Preserve regional differences while making the review consistent across several languages. Use a saved working copy, identify the intended active document, and check the inspection scope before interpreting a result. A profile is an inspection brief, not a command to repair the document.
Follow the workflow
- Identify the language sections and publication conventions. Correct paragraph-language attributes on neutral working examples first.
- Inspect representative paragraphs under automatic resolution. Check the resolved evidence separately from the five interface-language choices.
- Use language guides to compare supported quote, spacing, date and number conventions. Do not apply one country’s pattern to all text sharing a language family.
- Review uncertain quotations, abbreviations and numeric meanings with a competent language editor. A registered locale is not a grammar or spelling service.
- Use the intended team profile consistently. Make authorized changes through the profile workflow and obtain fresh results.
- Review the complete intended scope and document any human-only decisions or omitted structures before handoff.
Read Typography advice before editing
Select a finding and read Found, Suggested when offered, and Text locale. Review in context gives guidance without a guessed replacement. Advice itself edits no text. Verify meaning, make a deliberate edit in InDesign if justified, then inspect again. Read the full recommendation workflow →
How to recognize a finished pass
- Language boundaries and regional conventions are explicit.
- Original dates, amounts and quotations retain their meaning.
- Exceptions can be explained to the next reviewer.
Where judgement matters
- A page’s documentation language does not determine the document’s locale.
- A common currency symbol can refer to different currencies.
Does a finding mean I must change the document?
No. Check intent, scope, current evidence and available actions. Retaining an intentional occurrence can be the correct decision. Record the supported review status when useful; it does not edit the source text.