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What is globalization?
- Globalization
- The process of implementing features and facilities that simplify localization.
- Localization (l10n)
- Adapting systems to the language, culture, and expectations of a specific locale.
- Locale
- A specific combination of language, location, standards, customs and culture.
- Multilingual systems
- Allow multiple languages to be used in the same program.
- Internationalization (i18n)
- Another word for globalization. It sometimes is taken to mean both globalization and localization.
Globalization is often confused with localization. When a product is localized, it is changed to work for one or more specific locales. Globalization is the task of enabling products to be localized for any locale.