On 17/06/2005, at 10:01 PM, Lea de Groot wrote:

August will see us avidly listening to John Bates talking to us about
Internationalisation (geez, no wonder it is routinely abbreviated to
'i18n'!).

I've been told it's shortened for two reasons:

Firstly, it's much easier to type.

Secondly, it solves the internationalisation problem of
"isation" vs "ization" :)

Dean

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