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ALL meanings of internationalization

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  • abbreviation Technical meaning of INTERNATIONALIZATION internationalisation 3
  • noun internationalization The conversion of something in order to make it international. 1
  • verb with object internationalization to make international, as in scope or character: a local conflict that was internationalized into a major war. 1
  • verb with object internationalization to place or bring under international control. 1
  • verb without object internationalization to become international: The automobile company must internationalize in order to meet the competition. 1
  • noun internationalization globalization 1
  • noun Technical meaning of internationalization (programming)   (i18n, globalisation, enabling, software enabling) The process and philosophy of making software portable to other locales. For successful localisation, products must be technically and culturally neutral. Effective internationalisation reduces the time and resources required for localisation, improving time-to-market abroad and allowing simultaneous shipment. In orther words, internationalisation abstracts out local details, localisation specifies those details for a particular locale. Technically this may include allowing double-byte character sets such as unicode or Japanese, local numbering, date and currency formats, and other local format conventions. It also includes the separation of user interface text e.g. in dialog boxes and menus. All the text used by an application may be kept in a separate file or directory, so that it can be translated all at once. User interfaces may require more screen space for text in other languages. The simplest form of internationalisation may be to make use of operating system calls that format time, date and currency values according to the operating system's configuration. The abbreviation i18n means "I - eighteen letters - N". 1
  • noun internationalization (software engineering) The act or process of making a product suitable for international markets, typically by making text messages easily translatable and ensuring support of non-Latin character sets. 0
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