26 Localization and Bundles
If the application you create is useful, you will want to share it with all the people of the world. Unfortunately, we do not all speak the same language. Suppose that you wish to make your RaiseMan application available to French speakers. We would say, “You need to localize RaiseMan for French speakers.”
If you are creating an application for the world, you should plan on localizing it for at least the following languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch, Italian, Mandarin, and Japanese. Clearly, you do not want to have to rewrite the entire app for each language. In fact, your goal should be to ensure that your code will remain unchanged as you add support for new languages. That way, all ...
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