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Why should every developer care about internationalization?

● it’s everywhere (interfaces, dashboards in cars, webpages, documentation portals,


operating systems of a tablet)
It must follow international requirements as long as it meets international users.
Programming languages made a big progress, but that’s not enough, because no modern
framework internalizes itself. There’s a lot to be done. Localization is a problem of everyone
involved in the kind of work that requires working internationally.
Nowadays international perspective comes down on the list of priorities.
Every developer needs to set correct local coding standards, and pay attention to grammar
of different languages (for example, gender - in different countries different words have
different gender)
One of the most important factors is having a clear source of information, without mistakes
or misunderstanding.
Next one is context. Grammar can be different and has slightly varied meaning, so it’s better
to be aware of original text or, at least, see what they mean at all.
It’s also important to get into requirements discussions where project owners and engineers
are on. Sometimes requirements get messed up and it causes a lot of problems.

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