Why Internationalization ?

• The World Wide Web should be truely world-wide!
• Wide diversity world-wide:
  • Scripts (Latin, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Tamil, Katakana,...)
  • Languages (English, French, Russian, Yiddish, Japanese,...)
  • Typographic conventions
  • Cultural conventions
  • Political circumstances
• Avoid fragmentation of specifications due to localization
• Make sure internationalization is done at the right place

Internationalization = Internationalisation = I18N