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LOCALIZATION AND INTERNATIONALIZATION

Localization
Localization is the process of creating or adapting a product to
a specific locale, i.e., to the language, cultural context, conventions
and market requirements of a specific target market. With a
properly localized product, a user can interact with this product
using his/her own language and cultural conventions.
It also means that all user-visible messages and all user
documentation (printed and electronic) use the language and
cultural conventions of the user

Internalization
Internationalization is a way of designing and producing products
that can be easily adapted to different locales. This requires
extracting all language, country/region and culturally dependent
elements from a product.

Example:

Mozilla is the most well known and widely used of the FOSS web
browsers available. Mozilla is internationalized because the
community of developers behind the Mozilla Project have designed
and developed their software to function in multiple locales.
Mozilla is localized when local developers, using guidelines and
localization toolkits provided by the Mozilla Project, modify or adapt
the product to suit a particular locale.

This modification often involves translating user interfaces,


documentation and packaging, as well as changing and customizing
features to match the usage patterns of that locale.

Methods of Localizing Linux


At present, the most technically effective method is localization
via the Linux-Unicode-OpenType model. A brief explanation of the
different technologies follows.

Unicode
The Unicode encoding system, the latest version being Unicode
4.0, is an industry standard for encoding characters and symbols. It
is closely related to the ISO Universal Character Set standard 10646

OpenType
OpenType is a cross-platform font file format jointly developed
by Microsoft and Adobe. It is based on the Unicode encoding
standard and offers multiple language character sets in one font file

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