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1. What Is Localization?

Christopher Miller

(1)Slingerlands, New York, USA

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Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

—Alexander Graham Bell

What Is Localization, and Why Should You Pay for it?

This book is written for the native app developer who wants to support multiple languages and cultures with a shared code base.

I’ll cover definitions in the following sections, but for now just know that localization is part of the ...

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