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title: "What is internationalisation?"  
description: "What is internationalisation?"  
author: "Chris Anderson"  
published: 2011-12-16  
updated: 2020-09-22  
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category: "java"  
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# What is internationalisation?

Internationalization is the process of designing an application so that it can be adapted to various languages and regions without engineering changes. Sometimes the term internationalization is abbreviated as i18n, because there are 18 letters between the first "i" and the last "n."

## Answers

### Answer by Chris Anderson

Internationalization is the process of designing an application so that it can be adapted to various languages and regions without engineering changes. Sometimes the term internationalization is abbreviated as i18n, because there are 18 letters between the first "i" and the last "n."


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