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Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive



On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 02:53:04AM -0300, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote:
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> On 26-02-2009 23:10, Darren Salt wrote:
> > I demand that Frans Pop may or may not have written...
> >> Joerg Jaspert wrote:
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> >>> The new sections are:
> >>> localisations            Language packs
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> >> I'd prefer "localization".
> 
> > Whereas I'd prefer "localisation"...
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> 	What about using 'l10n'?  It tends to be well know these days, and
> would avoid the s|z problem. :-)

The terms i18n and l10n might be well known amongst developers, but I
contend that most users won't know (or should need to know) arcane
abbreviations when we could use the full word.


Regards,
Roger

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