[Lazarus] Friday trivia... the acronym “I18N”

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

Just for fun...

I came across something today which I never knew before (though I have
always wondered about it).

Ever seen the acronym “I18N” (pronounced as “eye eighteen en”)?

Sure you have. It is used when talking about internationalization in
software.

Ever wondered how they came to [or invented] that acronym? I have!

I always thought is was probably one of those standardization document
codes, like the RFC or ISO codes. But it isn’t. Today I found the real
answer [1].


   INTERNATIONALIZATION
    \_______  _______/
            ||
            ||
           I18N

You have an I, 18 other letters, and an N. You’ll also see this
type of approach used with other words in this field, such as
“localization” (L10N).

Very clever! :-)


Regards,
  - Graeme -


[1] www.unicode.org/iuc/iuc15/ta4/slides.pdf‎