國際化(internationalization)是設計和制造容易適應不同區(qū)域要求的產品的一種方式。它要求從產品中抽離所有地域語言,國家/地區(qū)和文化相關的元素。換言之,應用程序的功能和代碼設計考慮在不同地區(qū)運行的需要,其代碼簡化了不同本地版本的生產。開發(fā)這樣的程序的過程,就稱為國際化。
Internationalization is a way of designing and producing products that can be easily adapted to different locales. This requires extracting all language, country/region and culturally dependent elements from a product. In other words, the process of developing an application whose feature design and code design do not make assumptions based on a single locale, and whose source code simplifies the creation of different local editions of a program, is called internationalization.
在經濟學中,國際化是企業(yè)有意識的追逐國際市場的行為體現(xiàn)。它即包括產品國際流動,也包括生產要素的國際流動。美國學者理查德