Chapter 12. Internationalization
The World Wide Web is not truly world-compatible. Most Web sites and the technology used to build them are designed for western European languages—primarily English. This is not a limitation of the Web; it is a restriction developers either choose or are unable to build beyond. The issue of internationalization support is being able to provide a Web site that can produce content in a number of different languages. In this chapter the focus is how to successfully build an internationalized Web Application.
Internationalization, commonly abbreviated as i18n because it starts with an I, ends with an N, and has 18 letters in between, is an important concept to understand. Ideally, this chapter is for developers responsible ...
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