TermCraft conventionFoundational

Internationalization (i18n)

Building it so it can be translated later without breaking.

Definition

Preparing a product so it can be adapted to other languages and regions without engineering rework.

Craft convention. True because the industry converged on it. Breaking it costs familiarity, not correctness.

In plain language

Building it so it can be translated later without breaking.

Externalising strings, using logical CSS properties, and never concatenating sentence fragments.

Each link says what the connection is, so you can tell a principle from an alternative from a thing people mix this up with.

The full entry behind this definition.

Connected closely enough to change how you apply this.

Adjacent territory, found through shared tags rather than a stated link.