Re: Origin of the term i18n

From: Mark Davis (mark.davis@jtcsv.com)
Date: Fri Oct 11 2002 - 15:20:41 EDT

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    > Mark, I am curious why you find this term so distasteful? Is it the
    algorithm itself or just a general objection to acronyms and the like? Or
    something else entirely?

    I find this particular way of forming abbreviations particularly ugly and
    obscure. It is also usually unnecessary; looking at any of the messages
    brought up by Google, the percentage of 'saved' keystrokes is a very small
    proportion of the total count. And when it leaks out into the general
    programmer community, it just looks odd.

    For me, it is on the same order as using "nite" for "night", or "cpy" for
    "copy".

    Mark
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    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Barry Caplan" <bcaplan@i18n.com>
    To: "Mark Davis" <mark.davis@jtcsv.com>; "Tex Texin" <tex@i18nguy.com>;
    "Unicoders" <unicode@unicode.org>; "NE Localization SIG"
    <nelocsig@egroups.com>
    Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 11:40
    Subject: Re: Origin of the term i18n

    > At 11:11 AM 10/11/2002 -0700, Mark Davis wrote:
    > >Sorry to appear the curmudgeon, but I've never seen any but a relatively
    few
    > >people use this goofy form of abbreviation, and then for only a few of
    the
    > >words on your web page. A search for "normalization" and "Unicode" yields
    > >32,800 enties on Google. A search for "n11n" yields 3.
    >
    >
    > I have seen m17n come out of japan and I saw a similar term, algorithm
    misapplied in a totally unrelated context at
    http://www.christadelphian.org/MEMBERS/index.htm:
    >
    > "Welcome to the "inside" of C17g.
    >
    > that's Christadelphian.org shortened - there are 17 characters between the
    C and the g of the name... it saves a lot of typing"
    >
    > >Not a trend.
    >
    > Not a trend but a meme....
    >
    > Mark, I am curious why you find this term so distasteful? Is it the
    algorithm itself or just a general objection to acronyms and the like? Or
    something else entirely?
    >
    > Barry Caplan
    > www.i18n.com
    >
    >
    >

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