From kde-devel Wed Mar 29 21:52:48 2000 From: Rob Kaper Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 21:52:48 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: Difference between i18n and i10n X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=95436648512712 On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 11:39:22PM +0200, Antonio Larrosa wrote: > > l10n = localization (country-specific settings such as how to represent > > numbers, dates, money, ...) > > i18n = internationalization (translations) > > Btw, does anybody knows why are they called with those names ? > I've been wondering for a long time :-) Basically it's as simple as: both are very long names and people are lazy. Localization is 10 characters, internationalization is 18, hence l10n en i18n. I'm afraid I cannot tell you who started doing it where and when, though. Perhaps it's in the Jargon File? (www.jargon.org) Rob -- Rob Kaper | cap@capsi.com cap@capsi.cx cap@atomickitten.cx cap@loves.lana.cx | http://capsi.com/ http://capsi.cx/ telnet://chat.capsi.cx:2300/ | "These are the people who proudly call themselves "hackers" -- | not as the term is now abused by journalists to mean a computer | criminal, but in its true and original sense of an enthusiast, | an artist, a tinkerer, a problem solver, an expert." -- ESR