Internationalization and Localization

I18n vs. I10N
I18N - Internationalization, which makes localization easy
I10N - Localization

Character Set vs. Encoding: Two key dimentions to understand Internationalization

Unicode: Character Set designed to include all possible characters from all languages. UTF-8, UTF-16, are encodings for Unicode.

Java: Java uses Unicode for Strings.

Java Classes make internationalization easy
* ResourceBundle
* MessageFormat
* Locale
* DateFormat
* DateFormatSymbols
* InputStreamReader