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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Difference between i18n and i10n
From:       Antonio Larrosa <antlarr () arrakis ! es>
Date:       2000-03-29 22:40:32
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Sven Radej wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Antonio Larrosa wrote:
> >David Faure wrote:
> >>
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > I just wondered why the directories are called i10n in
> >> > kdebase, and what the difference to i18n is....
> >>
> >> 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 :-)
> Internationalization  = "i",eighteen letters, then "n" :-)

*lol* :-)
It seems I'm not the most lazy people in the world after all ;-)

Thanks,

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Antonio Larrosa Jimenez
antlarr@arrakis.es        larrosa@kde.org
http://www.arrakis.es/~rlarrosa
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