What is i18n?
i18n is an abbreviation for Internationalization. Since Internationalization is long, it is abbreviated as i18n because there are 18 letters between the first i and the last n.
It is often used in the context of internationalizing software.
The main target items in internationalization include the following: 1
- Character sets (standard character codes, etc.)
- Text direction (left to right, right to left, top to bottom towards the left, etc.)
- Text / Wording
- Fonts
- Formatting
- Numbers (decimal point characters, thousands separator characters, number of digits to group by, etc.)
- Date and time (how to format year, month, and day; differences in calendars used such as Islamic/Gregorian/Hebrew/Japanese calendars, etc.)
- Time difference in date and time information
- Currency information