Re: tlug: Re: M17N (?)

[Jonathan Byrne - 3Web <jq@example.com>]

On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Scott Stone wrote:

>Beats me.  Go figure this:
>
>[sstone@example.com sstone]$ echo internationalization | wc
>      1       1      21
>[sstone@example.com sstone]$ echo international | wc
>      1       1      14
>
>so what's I18N, then?

If you count the letters by hand instead of trusting the output from wc,
you'll find that in fact:

"international" has 13 characters
"internationalization" has 18 characters between the first and the last
letters, and the total character count it 20.

Forget "Question Authority" - question the results :-)

Jonathan Byrne
Media and Content Section
3Web - Your Internet Solution! <URL:http://www.threeweb.ad.jp/index.en.html>
3Web Channel <URL: http://www.3web.co.jp/index.en.html>

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