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MRI Translation

You can attempt two different degrees of translation:

• Translate End User Text: Only the text visible to the end user is translated— device file output, messages, and Help text. This is the normal requirement. If, however, the user will be using interrogation tools such as Query, you should also translate the field text on database files.
• Total translation: You translate all the descriptive text for entities along with source comments and system documentation. It is seldom commercially attractive to do this.