Localization and internationalization, what's the difference?

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执笔经年
执笔经年 2020-12-04 05:33

I was going to ask a question about preparing a desktop application to support multiple languages on the UI.

In my search for existing questions on the topic I was

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  •  独厮守ぢ
    2020-12-04 05:58

    According to Wikipedia

    Internationalization is the process of designing a software application so that it can potentially be adapted to various languages and regions without engineering changes.

    Localization is the process of adapting internationalized software for a specific region or language by adding locale-specific components and translating text.

    Also, Localization (which is potentially performed multiple times, for different locales) uses the infrastructure or flexibility provided by internationalization (which is ideally performed only once, or as an integral part of ongoing development).

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