While true internationalization is beyond the scope of the Rock project, we do want to make Rock friendly for organizations outside of the United States. Each localization topic is discussed separately following articles. While true internationalization is beyond the scope of the Rock project, we do want to make Rock feel at home for organizations outside of the United States. Out of the box, Rock leans on US conventions like dollars, US phone formats, and American school grades, simply because that's where the project started. The good news is that most of these defaults are just settings, and adjusting them is usually quick. Think of localization as a handful of small, independent adjustments rather than one big switch. You can tackle only the areas that matter to your organization and leave the rest alone, in any order you like. The articles that follow cover each topic on its own: formatting phone numbers for multiple countries, displaying dates and times for your region, setting your organization's currency symbol, configuring international addresses, and matching school grades to your local education system. One quick caution before you begin. Some of these settings change how information is displayed, not how it's processed. Currency is the classic example, where changing the symbol doesn't reconfigure your payment gateway. We'll flag those gotchas as they come up.