The terms are frequently abbreviated to the numeronyms i18n (where 18 stands for the number of letters between the first … See more

According to Software without frontiers, the design aspects to consider when internationalizing a product are "data encoding, data and documentation, software construction, hardware device support, an… See more

To internationalize a product, it is important to look at a variety of markets that the product will foreseeably enter. Details such as field length for street addresses, unique format for the address, ability to make the postal cod… See more

Both in re-engineering an existing software or designing a new internationalized software, the first step of internationalization is to split each potentially locale-dependent part (whether code, text o… See more

A globalization method includes, after planning, three implementation steps: internationalization, localization and quality assurance.
To some degree (e.g. for quality assurance), developme… See more

In a commercial setting, the benefit of localization is access to more markets. In the early 1980s, Lotus 1-2-3 took two years to separate program code and text and lost the market lead in Europe over Microsoft Multiplan. … See more

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