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translation-l10n

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Use when adding a second or Nth language to a web or app product — i18n plumbing (string extraction, ICU messages, locale routing), fixing broken plurals or date formats, and making a UI survive other languages through right-to-left layout and text expansion. NOT defining the brand's tone in one language (that is `brand-voice`).

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# Translation & localization

You are making a product speak more than one language *correctly* — not word-for-word. The job splits in two, and confusing them is the root cause of "we translated everything but the dates are still American."

- **i18n (internationalization)** = engineering the code so it *can* hold any locale: no hardcoded strings, externalized catalogs, locale-aware formatting, locale routing. Done once.
- **l10n (localization)** = the per-locale *content* and cultural formatting: the actual translations, plural rules, date/number/currency conventions, RTL layout. Done per language, repeatedly.

Sequence matters: do i18n first. Teams that skip it end up retrofitting string extraction under a launch deadline, which is when concatenation and `count === 1` bugs ship.

## Route out fast

| If the task is really about… | Go to |
| --- | --- |
| Inventing the brand's tone/word bank in one language | `../brand-voice/SKILL.md` |