# Introduction

`Laminas\I18n` comes with a complete translation suite which supports all major
formats and includes popular features like plural translations and text domains.
The Translator component is mostly dependency free, except for the fallback to a
default locale, where it relies on the Intl PHP extension.

The translator itself is initialized without any parameters, as any configuration
to it is optional. A translator without any translations will actually do nothing
but just return the given message IDs.
