[RFC] New category proposal, i18n

[Thomas Abthorpe]

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On June 24, 2009 02:24:01 pm Charlie Kester wrote:
> >On June 23, 2009 04:36:08 pm Charlie Kester wrote:
> >> On Tue 23 Jun 2009 at 12:05:55 PDT Thomas Abthorpe wrote:
> >> >Localization is a subset Internationalization, so the new category
> >> >becomes a catch all for both entities.
> >>
> >> If i18n is too cryptic or too alphanumeric, and internationalization is
> >> too long, why not go with "nls"?
> >
> >I personally think that nls is equally as cryptic as i18n or l10n.
>
> But it has the virtue of being purely alphabetic. and thus meets one of
> the objections that have been raised.
>
> I don't put much weight on the "cryptic" argument myself.  I expect that
> anyone who is doing internationalization work is familiar with all of
> these  terms -- and if not, they need to *make* themselves familiar with
> them.

ack ack, point well taken.


Thomas

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