I18n terms
Software that speaks every language your users do
Internationalisation ensures your software can be adapted for any language, region, or culture without engineering rework. This category covers locale handling, Unicode, pluralisation rules, date and number formatting, right-to-left layouts, translation workflows, and the subtle bugs that appear when you assume everyone uses your date format, currency, or alphabet.
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- Character Encoding Often seen in PHP Intl Extension 1d
Collation & Locale-Aware Sorting
PHP 7.0+
Locale-specific rules for ordering strings alphabetically — determining that ä sorts near a in German but after z in traditional Swedish, and that sorting must not rely on byte values for Unicode text.
2mo ago
i18n intermediate
Character Encoding
PHP 5.0+
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How text is stored as bytes — ASCII (128 chars), Latin-1 (256 chars), UTF-8 (1-4 bytes, backwards compatible), and UTF-16 are the key encodings developers encounter.
3mo ago
i18n intermediate