Internationalization is the process of designing and developing an application that can be easily adapted to the cultural and language differences of locales other than the one in which the application was developed. Localization is the process of adapting an application to fit the culture and language of a specific locale.

All Windchill applications are fully internationalized and ready to be localized. Windchill applications are delivered with a default locale of US English (en_US).

This chapter describes how to localize text visible to the user by using resource bundles.