Internationalization of a website #

Internationalization (i18n) is the process of designing and developing a website to support multiple languages and cultural conventions. It allows your website to be accessed by a global audience, and ensures that your website's content is presented correctly and appropriately for each individual user.

Why is it a good practice #

Internationalization of a website is considered a good practice because it allows you to expand your user base beyond your local region, to a global audience increasing reaach and engagement. It is more effective than automatic text translation because it shows that you are culturally aware and respectful as it allows you to make changes that better suit the target culture and language. The pros of internationalizing your website rather than just letting translation services automatically translate text on your page include:

• avoiding misunderstandings by bad translation models, leaving your user with a better understaning of your webiste
• enhancing the reputation of your website across usres and search engines
• increasing compliance with accessibility standards

What to keep in mind when internationalizing a website #

When internationalizing a website it is important to understand and to keep in mind that each international version of a website behaves as its own entity linked to your main domain. This means that all changes done to the content of one international version of the webstie will not be directly reflected in all the others. There are some other things to keep in mind when interationalizing your website's content:

• consider the differences beteen the target audiences of all the different international versions of your website
• review all the content of your website (including all media files) and determine which elements need to be localized
• be aware of the different legal requirements that need to be specified in different parts of the world for each international version of your website

As in all the main parts of RevasOS you will only need to focus on the content as most of the techincal aspects will be hadled by the system.