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“ Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.”  Jimmy Carter in 2002 Economic, industrial, financial, political
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Internationalization  is the process of designing a software application so that it can be adapted to various languages and regions without engineering changes.
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What Every Translator Should Know About Software Localization

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Editor's Notes

  1. WIP Japan Corporation
  2. Lionbridge
  3. LISA = L11N Industry Standards Association
  4. Swedish for ORacle
  5. Monster, Manpower,