Thus, the globalized software works with the appropriate features of each of the target countries. Properly developed software targeted for many locales must go through both internationalization and localization. IDE Integrated development environment. Internationalization Designing and building products so they can be easily adapted into various target languages and regions without requiring subsequent engineering changes. May often include work to enable multi-byte characters so that the application can be localized into Asian languages.
Internationalization builds in language interchangeability at the early product development stage.
Internationalization is the successor to retrofitting-the old methodology of simple linguistic translation after the product is finished. However, internationalization tends to be used in the meaning of globalizing software. Locale A locale is a combination of language and country IDs. There can be multiple locales for one language. Localization Localization is the act of applying country specific features to the program.