RE: Historians- what is origin of i18n, l10n, etc.?

From: Barry Caplan (bcaplan@i18n.com)
Date: Thu Oct 10 2002 - 16:15:13 EDT

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    At 06:35 PM 10/10/2002 +0200, Marco Cimarosti wrote:
    >Radovan Garabik wrote:
    >> Google is your friend :-)
    >> "i18n" is first mentioned in USENET on 30 nov 1989,

    Here is a mention from 1989-12-02 11:24:11 PST only 3 days later:

    http://groups.google.com/groups?q=i18n+1988&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=454%40longway.TIC.COM&rnum=7

    that says:

    > 5. Messaging
    >
    > The UniForum internationalization (I18N) folks brought forward a
    > proposal for a messaging facility to be included in P1003.1b.
    > The working group decided that it needs some more work but will
    > go into the next draft.
    >
    > [Editor's note -- The problem being solved here is that
    > internationalized applications store all user-visible strings in
    > external files, so that vendors and users can change the
    >
    >December 1989 Standards Update IEEE 1003.1: System services interface
    >
    >
    > - 5 -
    >
    > language of an application without recompiling it. The UniForum
    > I18N group is proposing a standard format for those files.]

    This indicates to me that UniForum might be a place to look for earlier references....

    This is a very interesting thread from 1990:

    http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=1990Aug30.115608.3729%40tsa.co.uk&rnum=20&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Di18n%2B1988%26start%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26selm%3D1990Aug30.115608.3729%2540tsa.co.uk%26rnum%3D20

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