Re: What does i18n mean?

From: Kenneth Whistler (kenw@sybase.com)
Date: Fri Nov 14 2003 - 17:22:57 EST

  • Next message: John Cowan: "Re: Unicode dictionary coding? UTF8, UTF32, etc"

    Ted Smith asked:

    > what does i18n mean? I see it bandied about a lot.
    >
    > My guess is "internationalisation",

    Correct. Or "internationalization", depending on your spelling
    conventions.

    > but actually when you pronounce
    > "eye won ayht en" it doesn't sound anything like that word.

    It is pronounced, by the cognoscenti, as "eye eighteen en".

    --Ken



    This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Fri Nov 14 2003 - 18:02:41 EST