Motivation for looking at Web Services I18N
I18N = I + 18 letters + N = Internationalis/zation
Internationalization part of
universal access
, important goal of W3C
Web services, as part of the WWW, should work all over the world
Web services are machine-to-machine, but ultimately run for users
Interaction with legacy systems with certain expectations
Distributed processing raises new problems for internationalization and localization
Web services may help solve some i18n problems
(see
World Wide Localization
)
Martin J. Dürst
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