title: Best practices for internationalizing web applications?
body: <p>Internationalizing web apps always seems to be a chore.  No matter how much you plan ahead for pluggable languages, there's always issues with encoding, funky phrasing that doesn't fit your templates, and other problems.</p>
  
  <p>I think it would be useful to get the SO community's input for a set of things that programmers should look out for when deciding to internationalize their web apps.</p>