Barry Caplan <bcaplan at i18n dot com> wrote: > My research over the last week indicates that the origins of Unicode > are very definitely of the same era and from the same community of > the people who brought the idea of internationalization to a critical > mass, and coined the term i18n. One has not been separable from the > other since at least 1989.
Just to make sure everyone is clear on this: I am not arguing against the concept of internationalization, or even against occasional use of the abbreviation "i18n." I use it myself sometimes, just as I use smileys sometimes. What I am arguing against is going hog-wild making up new obscure abbreviations from the same template, and clogging the Unicode list with them. Anything beyond "i18n" and "l10n" is tantamount to the "man with glasses smoking a cigar and drooling" type of smiley. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California
