Given JavaScript’s status as the de facto browser client scripting language, and given the international nature of the Internet, it was inevitable that JavaScript and internationalization (i18n) would eventually cross paths. Fortunately, in this day and age of Unicode, character corruption can be avoided if care is taken to make sure JavaScript is using it. Unfortunately, strings are hard coded in JavaScript and locale-specific methods are unpredictable, making localization more difficult.
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Assuming currentLocale is set to English (US), the resulting code block should look like this:
