The process of designing a product (such as a software program, website etc.) for it to be ready to be localized.  I Such attributes may be significant, such as the actual language and how dates and numbers are written, or less obvious – such as the meaning of certain colors and symbols in that culture. The logic underlying the internationalization process is this: it is better to resolve all issues once and for all in the source version, rather than resolve them over and over again in each translated version.