Chapter 26. Application Localization

The key phrase in World Wide Web is World Wide. Creating a Web site useful to speakers of different languages is a breeze using PHP and MySQL. The process of preparing your applications for use in multiple locales is called internationalization; customizing your code for each locale is called localization. In this chapter, you learn some basic tips for performing localization tasks:

• How to recognize and prepare for character set differences

• How to prepare the structure of your application and produce localized sites