Chapter Summary

Internationalization is the practice of generically enabling an application to dynamically retrieve and use locale-sensitive resources at runtime. Internationalization is an important feature for MIDP applications. An internationalized application will appeal to a greater user audience.

Internationalizing an application means generically enabling it to retrieve at runtime resources that are compatible with the locale context in which the application is running. Localization is the process of providing the resources for one or more locale contexts.

Localization is the practice of creating locale-specific resources for an internationalized program to access at runtime. Internationalization and localization efforts are related. The ...

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