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Introduction to l10n and i18n

Introduction to l10n and i18n

From the course: Spring: Spring MVC

Introduction to l10n and i18n

- [Instructor] Let's take a look at l10n and i18n and support with the Spring MVC. l10N is localization. There are 10 characters between l and n. I18n is internationalization. 18 characters between i and n. And what are these concepts? This process is basically used to localize or externalize messages and labels for an application. All your GSP forms have a huge set of labels that you wish to display. Also the success or the validations that you carry out the error messages corresponding to that, the information messages that you want to display, all of those are basically supposed to be localized or externalized and that is what we mean by providing localization and internationalization support. Why do you need that? Let's say you have a lot of GSP pages and you have a lot of controls on those GSP pages in your forms, which more or less have the same labels. A username could be shown on a login page and a…

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