Guidelines for translation contractors
- Translation guidelines and resources for contractors
- DG Translation’s Guide to documents (2024)
- Translation quality evaluation: Info pack for external contractors
Clear writing — translation quality
Translation quality info sheets for contractors
How to write clearly — European Commission booklet (all EU languages)
Claire's clear writing tips — practical tips (in English and French) expanding upon How to write clearly [November 2016]
Special character sets
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Unicode special character sets (the Cyrillic, Greek and Latin sets cover characters from all EU official languages)
Languages, countries and currencies
Language codes for EU languages (639-1)
Country codes for EU countries (ISO 3166)
Country names and currencies