Making the App World-Ready
At this point, our HelloRealWorld app still only says “hello” to the English-speaking parts of the world. The Windows Store serves hundreds of markets and over a hundred different languages, so ignoring them greatly reduces the audience for your app. Making your app world-ready involves two things: globalization and localization.
Globalization refers to making your app act appropriately for different markets without any changes or customizations. An example of this is formatting the display of currency correctly for the current region without writing special-case logic. The Windows.Globalization namespace contains a lot of functionality for handling dates and times, geographic regions, number formatting, and more. ...
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