Internationalization and localization

standard for representation of names for language and language groups

standard code for names of countries, dependent territories, special areas of geographical interest, and their main subdivisions

process in which software is made accessible to people in different areas of the world

process of adapting a product's translation to a specific country or region

symbol used to separate the integer part from the fractional part in the positional notation of a decimal number

symbol to identify a language, dialect or a group of languages

In computing, gettext is an internationalization and localization (i18n and l10n) system commonly used for writing multilingual programs on Unix-like computer operating systems. One of the main benefits of gettext is that it separates programming from translating. The most commonly used implementation of gettext is GNU gettext, released by the GNU Project in 1995. The runtime library is libintl. gettext provides an option to use different strings for any number of plural forms of nouns, but this feature has no support for grammatical gender. The main filename extensions used by this system are

abbreviated language code listing and format maintained by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) mirroring ISO 639-3

standard UNIX utility

term in video game development

project of the Unicode Consortium to provide locale data in XML format for use in computer applications

XLIFF (XML Localization Interchange File Format) is an XML-based bitext format created to standardize the way localizable data are passed between and among tools during a localization process and a common format for CAT tool exchange. The XLIFF Technical Committee (TC) first convened at OASIS in December 2001 (first meeting in January 2002), but the first fully ratified version of XLIFF appeared as XLIFF Version 1.2 in February 2008. Its current specification is v2.2 released on 2025-03-13, which is backwards compatible with v2.1 released on 2018-02-13.

text that contains both LTR and RTL text

software libraries for Unicode support

linguistic comparison

integrated localization feature in modern Windows systems

thumb|alt=The same ad presented in two languages Transcreation is a term coined from the words "translation" and "creation", and a concept used in the field of translation studies to describe the process of adapting a message from one language to another, while maintaining its intent, style, tone, and context. A successfully transcreated message evokes the same emotions and carries the same implications in the target language as it does in the source language. It is related to the concept of localization, which similarly involves comprehensively adapting a translated text for the target audien

comparison between US and UK English spelling

Pseudolocalization (or pseudo-localization) is a software testing method used for testing internationalization aspects of software. Instead of translating the text of the software into a foreign language, as in the process of localization, the textual elements of an application are replaced with an altered version of the original language. For example, instead of "Account Settings", the text may be altered to display as "!!!Ǎ¢ƈôΰлţ §℮τţĭπꞡş !!!".

localization and translation toolkit

type of software for automating many parts of the human language translation process and maximizing translator efficiency