Importance of Software Internationalization and Localization

  • To increase users and developers of FOSS in Asia, both internationalization and localization are important.
  • Without native language support, users and developers are limited.
  • Direct localization (without internationalization) has a problem in version upgrade and require huge effort to continue support of native languages.
  • We need to have an efficient and sustainable way to deliver local language support.
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Version upgrade is nightmare!

New Language support
was added, added, and added. No control over the multiple language versions.

There are also a lot of duplicated efforts.

Localization needs to be reworked for every version upgrade.