Microsoft released a prototype of a new jQuery Globalization Plugin that enables you to add globalization support to your JavaScript applications. This plugin includes globalization information for over 350 cultures ranging from Scottish Gaelic, Frisian, Hungarian, Japanese, to Canadian English.  This plugin will be released to the community as open-source.

Basically, the jQuery Globalization plugin enables you to easily parse and format numbers, currencies, and dates for different cultures in JavaScript. For example, you can use the Globalization plugin to display the proper currency symbol for a culture, or format dates so that the day and month appear in the right order and the day and month names are correctly translated.

You can download the prototype for the jQuery Globalization plugin from Microsoft’s Github repository:

http://github.com/nje/jquery-glob

You can also download a set of samples that demonstrate some simple use-cases with it here.

Source: ScottGu’s Blog