localization

Localization is the process of adapting a product, service or website to a particular language, culture, and desired local "look-and-feel."

Ideally, a product or service is developed so that localization is relatively easy to achieve – for example, by creating technical illustrations for manuals in which the text can easily be changed to another language and allowing some expansion room for this purpose. This enabling process is termed internationalization. An internationalized product or service is therefore easier to localize. The process of first enabling a product to be localized and then localize it for different national audiences is sometimes known as globalization.

The term localization can be confusing. It is one of the funny terms that have different meanings at different levels. First, it is used as a general definition of the overall process of preparing software, user interfaces, documentation (print and online), online help, and websites for use in a non-English locale. At that most general level, localization includes three sub-processes, defined by the following terms:

• Internationalization: The process of ensuring that the software can work fully on the machines in the target country, as well as make the software localizable.

• Localization: The process of making the textual material of the software readable in the target locale. This includes translation (see below) but encompasses many activities that facilitate and enhance the actual translation.

• Translation: The process of taking text in a source language, and accurately translating it into text in a target language.

For our templates you may add localization package after installing. You ought to use language package exactly for your CMS engine version. You may add localization for admin panel and one or several languages for website. You can find instructions for localization for each type of template in our tutorials.