From: Tex Texin (tex@i18nguy.com)
Date: Thu Oct 10 2002 - 19:34:45 EDT
Mark,
that's good to know. I never worked with Apple and so have no Apple doc
in my collection.
However, the W0e below is a violation of the encoding and is a security
risk. I think the algorithm calls for the shortest string, so people
can't sneak in extra nulls- W0e W00e, etc.
;-)
tex
Mark Davis wrote:
>
> We used the term "internationalization" in Apple in late 85. We might have
> also used it earlier than that, I don't remember.
>
> W0e n3r u2d t1e g1d-a3l, g3y a1d o5e a10n "i18n", h5r!
>
> Mark
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tex Texin" <tex@i18nguy.com>
> To: "Barry Caplan" <bcaplan@i18n.com>
> Cc: "Rick McGowan" <rick@unicode.org>; <unicode@unicode.org>
> Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 13:14
> Subject: Re: Historians- what is origin of i18n, l10n, etc.?
>
> > >From the books I looked at this morning, the term "localization" was
> > very much in use in the late 80s by most vendors.
> > It seems "internationalization" came later, and was more vendor specific
> > until 92/93.
> > Then came i18n.
> > then came l10n, g11n, e13n (europeanization), j10n (japanization)...
> >
> >
> >
> > Barry Caplan wrote:
> > >
> > > At 08:35 AM 10/10/2002 -0700, Rick wrote:
> > > >The earliest reference I can find to "i18n" in my old e-mail trail is
> the
> > > >following e-mail to the "sun!unicode" mail list by Glenn Wright. This
> was
> > > >Oct 5, 1989. By that time, the term was definitely current, as Mr.
> Hiura
> > > >suggests.
> > >
> > > I registered i18n.com around 94 or so, and the fellow, whose name I am
> trying hard to recall (first name JR, Australian or British IIRC, red hair),
> seemed to indicate the coinage was quite some time before that and he was
> very surprised when I told him how extensive the usage was by then.
> > >
> > > I'm a jonny-come-lately when it comes to unix and other standards
> history... is there an searchable archive of windows standards anywhere? How
> about a cvs server of code? It seems to me that i18n or variants could have
> made it into code as a function name almost immediately, or possibly even
> before being put into a standards doc....
> > >
> > > It seems to me that l10n was extant by the time I came to CA ~ 1992.
> > >
> > > Perhaps Ken Lunde can shed some light - he surely came across a lot of
> early docs while writing his first book, which was a republication of an
> online archive he maintained I think.
> > >
> > > Barry
> >
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