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Afterword

Afterword

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Localisation is never finished.

Every feature you ship brings new text to translate and new assumptions to check. Every market you add brings its own laws, payment methods and support emails. The world moves too. Countries change their timezones at a few weeks' notice, Unicode adds characters every year, and the rules on how prices, invoices and websites have to look keep changing. This book gets updated as they do.

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