Why is internationalization important?
It’s always very important to use people from the region you want to target to oversee your localization. Using mechanich tools or software to do the translations just doesn’t cut it. That’s why it makes total sense to do why other community sites have done: leveraging their community. A good example of this is Facebook. They built a community-driven system where users would translate the strings used across the site, and then another group of users would vote on the best translations, and finally launched it. Shortly after they did this, Facebook’s international traffic exploded, while their US traffic was remaining pretty level. I know from my friends and family in Latin America that around the time the Spanish translations came up, they flocked from Hi5 to Facebook. According to this graph from Oxyweb, Facebook continues to win countries, as more and more localized versions are released. One popular PHP framework that supports languages natively is CodeIgniter. They offer a class to
