Re: tlug: Re: M17N (?)

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Jonathan Byrne - 3Web wrote:

> 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 :-)

Results make sense.  'echo' adds a \n (newline) to the string, so the
count will be off-by-one to you and me, but acceptable to the machine.

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