國際化

Internationalization is a way of designing and producing products that can be easily adapted to different locales. This requires extracting all language, country/region and culturally dependent elements from a product. In other words, the process of developing an application whose feature design and code design do not make assumptions based on a single locale, and whose source code simplifies the creation of different local editions of a program, is called internationalization.

在經濟學中，國際化是企業有意識的追逐國際市場的行為體現。它即包括產品國際流動，也包括生產要素的國際流動。美國學者理查德·D·羅賓遜（Richard D·Robinson）在其著作《企業國際化導論》一書中提出上述觀點。