Theodore H. Smith scripsit: > what does i18n mean? I see it bandied about a lot. > > My guess is "internationalisation", but actually when you pronounce > "eye won ayht en" it doesn't sound anything like that word.
Count the letters in "internationalisation" between the initial i and the final n. Similar terms are l10n (localisation) and c14n (canonicalisation). These abbreviations are not used in speech, of course; they have the advantage that they are ambiguous between "-isation" and "-ization". -- John Cowan www.ccil.org/~cowan www.reutershealth.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] We want more school houses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more constant work and less crime; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures. --Samuel Gompers
