Re: tlug: Introduction; Looking for Help on i18n

[David J Iannucci <dji@example.com>]

> Please forgive my ignorance, but someone could post a little
> summary on what is the "i18n issue"?

I usually leave such responses to others, but this time felt
like chiming in :^)

This is a much simpler concept than you think: Since words such
as "internationalization" are long and hard to *say* much less
to type, people who work in this field sometimes use abbreviations
for them.  The abbreviations are formed by removing all the
characters in the word except the first and last, and replacing
them with the number of characters that were removed, hence:

internationalization = i18n
multilingualization = m17n
localization = l10n

These are the main ones... if there are others, they've slipped my
mind for now.

Konna ni hima na yatsu mo iru'n da, tte omou deshou :^)

H2e t2s h3s,
Dave

Next TLUG meeting is Saturday Dec. 13, 1997  (possibly Nov. 13?)
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