FOSS Internationalization and Localization
Locales
Defining the encoding is not sufficient for supporting language in computes. The internal codes must be displayed on the screen in terms of textual characters for it to be put to any significant use.
This is done through fonts and rendering. Fonts represents the shapes of characters ( also called glyphs) corresponding to each code for the language and also rules to indicate how these characters may alter shape or position on the screen in context of other characters.
This is done through fonts and rendering. Fonts represents the shapes of characters ( also called glyphs) corresponding to each code for the language and also rules to indicate how these characters may alter shape or position on the screen in context of other characters.