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ABSTRACT

Today the computers are constructed thinking for an international use due to the increasing number of computers in the world. So the user interface should be construted thinking for globally use. And the softwares design may efforts follow more and more the evolution of the computers. Incresingly softwares are viewed as an instrument wich interact with cultures of societies in which it works.

The manufactures of the softwares increasingly make efforts to adapt they product to market needs. Like adapting they product appearance to aesthetic and historical value in which they are sold.

This paper presents and explains some issues of software translation and localization in web based ERP, in applied to an open source application WebERP. The paper also argues peculiarities of the accounting taxes of the especific region.

We will present a practice application of the WebERP in the specific country and it's translation, and we will see the impact in the accounting. We choose Portugal as a country that we will express some issues considerated when we realise a transaction operation based in a cenario.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  D. Software
  D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
        D.2.11 Software Architectures

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.3 Group and Organization Interfaces
          Subjects: Web-based interaction

  J. Computer Applications
  J.4 SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
      Subjects: Economics

General Terms:
Design, Documentation, Human Factors

Keywords:
ERP, I18N, L10N, PoEdit, WebERP, internationalization, localization