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Re: l10n and i18n (RE: Potato release: What is "official"?)



On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 03:45:55PM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
> L10n is localization.  Different from i18n, l10n implements
> language- (or character code-) specific matters directly.  
> For example, using locale system and gettext is i18n, while 
> assuming that 8-bit characters are iso8859-1 is l10n.

Uh, I was under the impression that i10n is making the program support
a particular locale (including translations) and i18n is making this
possile :-)

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