Internationalization and Multilingual Support

The Zend_Locale family of components provide access to the Common Locale Data Repository under the sponsorship of the Unicode Consortium. This repository contains extensive information on several kinds of standards and convetions in use by numerous regions and languages around the world.

Zend_Translate provides phrase translation yielding an interface usable by non-native English speakers, while helping to manage the complexity associated with maintaining sets of phrases for languages supported by your application. The sets may be stored in a number of popular formats, and edited by third party tools, such as poEdit for ".mo" files common to applications using gettext().

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