Chapter 11. Localization Issues

Since APEX is a web development environment, it allows your application to be accessed over an intranet or the Internet by a geographically diverse set of end users. These end users may cross geographical and language boundaries, which means that you may need to enable your application to be viewed in different languages. Fortunately, the APEX development team foresaw this requirement, and has provided a number of features to allow developers to create multilingual applications.

Now, not every application needs to handle different languages. Often, you can just ship an English version of the application. However, you can still take advantage of some localization-related features to make your application behave a ...

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