On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 03:56:10AM -0500, der Mouse wrote:

> Internationalization stuff.  That's where "i18n" comes from: i, 18
> letters, n.  I have the feeling that I first ran into the term
> associated with X, but I can't recall details and "i18n" does not
> appear in the X doc I have handy.  There's another short phrase formed
> on the same basis from a different word, but I can't recall with
> certainty what it is (maybe interoperability -> i14y?).

Probably l10n, that is "localization"?

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