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Many publishing environments need to support multiple languages. In many cases, the requirement to support multiple languages surfaces in later stages of a product development or publishing solution, which can cause major design changes, driving up costs. Internationalization (I18N) is the approach to design systems which can adapt to different locales. Localization (L10N) is the activity to identify, define, and encode locales, based on internationalized software.
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one language fits allassumption is becoming increasingly inappropriate
just switch the labelsstrategy also may be too little for true L10N
Internationalization is the design and development of a product, application or document content that enables easy localization for target audiences that vary in culture, region, or language.
Localization refers to the adaptation of a product, application or document content to meet the language, cultural and other requirements of a specific target market (alocale).
Tags for Identifying Languages
Matching of Language Tags
en-US
or de
are requested but available variants are en
and de
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language-independent resource
http://en.example.com/foo/bar
URI navigation
http://example.com/en/foo/bar
URI navigation
http://example.com/foo/bar?lang=en
http://example.us/foo/bar
http://example.com/foo/bar
http://example.com/foo/bar
http://example.com/foo/bar.en
.
which uses the resource's extension
URI navigation
http://example.com/foo/bar,en
,
for specifying a parameter to a URI path segmenthttp://example.com/foo/bar;lang=en
;
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.
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http
URIs, ,
and/or ;
could interact with content negotiation,
or ;
for language variants but do not expect magic to happen