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The World Wide Web should be truely world-wide!
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Wide diversity world-wide:
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Scripts (Latin, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Tamil, Katakana,...)
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Languages (English, French, Russian, Yiddish, Japanese,...)
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Typographic conventions
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Cultural conventions
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Political circumstances
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Avoid fragmentation of specifications due to localization
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Make sure internationalization is done at the right place
Internationalization = Internationalisation = I18N