Globalization vs. Localization: What are its advantages?
An application that is available in the user’s language is considered to provide accessibility to the user and represents a huge competitive advantage. Therefore, it makes sense to address the market needs by developing a product that is global. Using a globalized approach while developing an application might deliver some challenges to the users. The users might face issues such as certain functionalities might not work when you select a different language. Date formats and time zones are different in every part of the world. Your application should be able to display the native time zone and date format. Globalization helps in designing and developing the applications that function for multiple cultures. It makes the product multi-lingual. Whereas, localization is the process of customization of the application for a given culture, locale, and dates, format, and parse numbers. In order to make globalization and localization work uniformly, thorough testing of the prod...