Functionality on international platforms

Because there is widespread industry support for Unicode enabling, internationalizing software will provide platform and vendor independence. Many platforms including Microsoft, HP, IBM, Sun, Unisys, and Oracle, are Unicode enabled. Additionally, the members of the Unicode Consortium cut across all industry, political and linguistic borders. Therefore developing software that is Unicode enabled greatly speeds up the process of localizastion when needed.

Standards insure interoperability and portability. This is accomplished by demanding conformant behavior of the software independent of language. Applications are able to process the text consistently and the localization specialist is able to verify the conformance.