I18N/L10N?

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, John Murphy wrote:

> I'd like to know where, when, who originated the I18n type abbreviation.
> I think they're really cool but I haven't seen much usage beyond FreeBSD
> world.  I want to start using v13s as an abbreviation for - any guesses?

I believe they were defined by XPG3 -- X/open Portability Guide version 3
(maybe around 1989).

I don't know what v13s is.

egrep -i '^v[[:alnum:]]{13}s$' /usr/share/dict/*

 Jeremy C. Reed

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