the act of bringing something under international control.
i18n] The process of making something portable on other locales. In phpBB, this is done by creating separate language packs so the user can specify which language they wish to view the board in. See also: Localisation, Downloads :: Language packs, i18n forum
this is the process of making a program localisable. This would cover work to allow for different fonts and charactersets to be displayed correctly. To allow for scripts that run from right-to-left, etc. This work is usually done once for a language, once the toolkits and programs support a language the internationalsiation work is usually complete. l10n — see Localisation l12y — see Localisability l18n — see either i18n or l10n. This is a common mispelling of one of these words.