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> Unlike a lot of stuff from the 1990s or so, the Rust core itself doesn't care about localization. It speaks Unicode fluently, but it doesn't try to think about locale problems at all.

The design of Rust's standard library is to be as minimal as possible. Full localization support would be too much for a tiny standard library such as Rust's. Contrast this to Java or Go.

In the library ecosystem, there are full implementations of fluent available, and the compiler is being translated. It's not ergonomic to use yet, meaning you have to put the strings into a separate .ftl file (maybe it will never be), but it's quite powerful and developed by a lot of experts on the topic.




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