FOSS Internationalization and Localization
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.