Globalization and localization - Overview

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Terms

• Globalization (G11N): The process of making an app support different languages and regions. The abbreviation comes from the first and last letters and the number of letters between them.

• Localization (L10N): The process of customizing a globalized app for specific languages and regions.

• Internationalization (I18N): Both globalization and localization.

• Culture: A language and, optionally, a region.

• Neutral culture: A culture that has a specified language, but not a region (for example "en", "es").

• Specific culture: A culture that has a specified language and region (for example, "en-US", "en-GB", "es-CL").

• Parent culture: The neutral culture that contains a specific culture (for example, "en" is the parent culture of "en-US" and "en-GB").

• Locale: A locale is the same as a culture.

Language and country/region codes

Tasks to localize an app

• Make an ASP.NET Core app's content localizable.

• Provide localized resources for the cultures the app supports

• Implement a strategy to select the culture for each request

Additional resources

• Url culture provider using middleware as filters in ASP.NET Core

• Applying the RouteDataRequest CultureProvider globally with middleware as filters

• IStringLocalizer : Uses the ResourceManager and ResourceReader to provide culture-specific resources at run time. The interface has an indexer and an IEnumerable for returning localized strings.

• IHtmlLocalizer: For resources that contain HTML.

• View and DataAnnotations

• Troubleshoot ASP.NET Core localization

• Globalizing and localizing .NET applications

• Resources in .resx Files

• Microsoft Multilingual App Toolkit

• Localization & Generics

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