The key phrase in
World Wide Web is
World Wide . Creating a Web site useful to speakers of different languages is a breeze using PHP and MySQL. The process of preparing your applications for use in multiple locales is called
internationalization ; customizing your code for each locale is called
localization . In this chapter, you learn some basic tips for performing localization tasks:
How to recognize and prepare for character set differences
How to prepare the structure of your application and produce localized sites