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Globalization Overview

2 Feb 20261 minute to read

Globalization is the process of designing applications that adapt seamlessly to different cultures, languages, and regional preferences. It combines two essential aspects:

  • Internationalization (i18n) — designing the application to support multiple locales without code changes, primarily through culture-specific formatting and parsing of dates, numbers, and currencies
  • Localization (l10n) — translating user-facing text (such as labels, messages, and tooltips) into different languages

Syncfusion® React UI components provide full globalization support, allowing developers to build applications that automatically adjust to diverse cultural and linguistic requirements.

What is Globalization?

Globalization enables an application to function effectively across multiple regions and languages without requiring code modifications. For Syncfusion React UI components, this includes:

  • Date and Time Formatting — displaying dates and times using locale-specific patterns (for example, MM/DD/YYYY in the US vs. DD/MM/YYYY in many European countries)
  • Number Formatting — applying appropriate decimal separators, thousands grouping, and digit patterns (for example, 1,234.56 in English vs. 1.234,56 in German)
  • Currency Formatting — presenting monetary values with the correct currency symbol, placement, and format (for example, $1,234.56 vs. 1.234,56 €)
  • Text Translation — translating static UI elements such as button captions, menu items, dialog messages, and validation errors into the target language
  • Text Direction — automatically supporting right-to-left (RTL) layout and text alignment for languages such as Arabic and Hebrew

By default, Syncfusion components use the en-US culture and USD currency. Developers can change these settings globally using the setCulture() and setCurrencyCode() methods provided by the Internationalization library.

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Globalization support in Syncfusion® React UI components is powered by two complementary libraries:

  • Localization — enables translation of static text content across all Syncfusion® React UI components
  • Internationalization — provides formatting and parsing support for dates, numbers, currencies, and related culture-specific data

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