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  The globalization of Web sites has become an important issue for companies that want to increase their presence and market and sell their products in international markets. In many case, localization has proven to be the key factor for international product acceptance & success.
  
- [[RI doesn't this para just repeat the previous one?]]
+ [[RI doesn't this para just repeat the previous one? DC 25 May - agreed, seems a duplication]]
  
  While the practice of web production has matured rapidly over the years, Web site globalization is still very much in its infancy. 
  
- Although nearly every American corporation now has a web presence, less than 15% offer more than one language. With so few examples to build upon, and few established standards, the web manager planning a multilingual site is often left with little direction and support. 
+ Although nearly every American corporation now has a web presence, less than 15% offer more than one language. With so few examples to build upon, and few established standards, the web manager planning a multilingual site is often left with little direction and support. '''[DC 25 May] But US-globalised/multilingual sites are not the only resource - seems English/US focussed.'''
  
  Web site globalization is [[RI can be?]] a complex process, which requires a clear project plan and often the allocation of significant time and resources.
  
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  == Key concepts ==
  
  There are many ways to define the key concepts of Web site globalization and we will not attempt to supply the definitive version. For the purposes of this overview, we can say that internationalization is the process of building a Web site so that it can support multiple locales (a country or region and language), while localization is the process of modifying that site for a specific locale. 
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+ '''[DC 25 May] Hope this is not word-smithing - can we lose the first sentence?'''
  
  Internationalization generally focuses on the Web site elements that work "behind the scenes" and are transparent '''''[[RR not all are transparent, ie number format, etc.]]''''' to the end user (e.g. encoding, architecture). Localization, on the other hand, [[RI typically/generally]] focuses on elements that are visible to the user, including the language of the text, the cultural context for the images, and the layout of the Web page. So, we can say that Web site globalization is the sum of internationalization and localization activities.

Received on Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:23:13 UTC