I was simply referring to convention for the first letter... to avoid
misunderstanding between I and l.
michka
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tex Texin" <texin@progress.com>
To: "Michael (michka) Kaplan" <michka@trigeminal.com>
Cc: "Unicode List" <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 1:30 PM
Subject: Re: What is the difference between i18n and l10n?
> With respect to the capitalization rules, I do not recall ever
> seeing "i18N" with lowercase i and uppercase N.
>
> The only place where I think it might occur is in one of those
> ransom notes where the case varies throughout the message and
> the characters are all cut from magazine ads.
>
> "i hAvE yOuR i18N enGInEeR hOstAGe. sEnD $1000,000.00 if YOu
> waNT HiM back!"
>
> For internationalization I have seen it any of the other 3 ways:
> i18n, I18n, I18N.
>
> I suspect l10n is usually uppercase L, since the lowercase L and the
> one are too similar. The trailing "n" can go either way.
> (Although, I am not aware of any words that have
> more than a hundred letters and end in "n". At least not
> in American English.)
>
> I am curious about where this comes from...
> tex
>
> "Michael (michka) Kaplan" wrote:
>
> > i18N is like being a proper guest at someone's house.
> > L10N is like making yourself at home there.
> >
> > (BTW, usually the convention is to capitalize and not capitalize the
words
> > as above, since many fonts are unclear on upper case "I" and lowercase
"L".
> >
> > michka
> >
>
> --
> If practice makes perfect, and nobody's perfect, why practice?
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