o not write another line of code until you finish reading this article.</p>

<p align="left">Before I get started, I should warn you that if you are one of those rare people who knows about internationalization, you are going to find my entire discussion a little bit oversimplified. I'm really just trying to set a minimum bar here so that everyone can understand what's going on and can write code that has a <em>hope</em> of working with text in any language other than the subset of English that doesn't in