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When people discuss about internationalization, they use the word "i18n" more often. For first time I didn't get what they are referring to by "i18n", then I came to know that it means "internationalization".

So wanted to know why internationalization = i18n.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalization_and_localization

18 stands for the number of letters between the first i and last n in internationalization, a usage coined at DEC in the 1970s or 80s

于 2010-04-13T18:38:21.810 回答
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            1    1  1
   1---5----0----5--8
 i|nternationalizatio|n  == i18n

            1
   1---5----0
 l|ocalizatio|n          == l10n

See also http://www.w3.org/2001/12/Glossary#I18N.

于 2010-04-13T18:40:50.093 回答
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18 is the number of letters between i and n in internationalization word.

This contraction is an English numerical contraction; contractions were the ellipsis of all but the first and last character is shown by the number of omitted characters

于 2010-04-13T18:38:14.347 回答
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Because they didn't feel like writing the whole word.

i18n it's "i" followed by 18 characters ('nternationalizatio', count them) and a "n" and that's it.

于 2010-04-13T18:38:21.037 回答