For translating applications into different human languages, Perl uses standard internationalization (I18N) and localization (L10N) practices, often relying on the gettext system via specific Perl modules from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN).
Key Modules:
Locale::Maketext is a framework for localization that manages translated phrases.
Locale::TextDomain provides an interface to the Uniforum message translation system (gettext)