So why is it called i18n?
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While doing some study into Struts, I kept coming across the term i18n as an abbreviation for internationalization. That is the the process of making an application flexible enough to handle input/output based on the locale of the browser accessing the application.
But I kept wondering... why call it i18n? Was there some international standards group that covered that concept as standard #18? No, nothing that complex...
It's called i18n because there are 18 letters between the i and the n... :-)
While doing some study into Struts, I kept coming across the term i18n as an abbreviation for internationalization. That is the the process of making an application flexible enough to handle input/output based on the locale of the browser accessing the application.
But I kept wondering... why call it i18n? Was there some international standards group that covered that concept as standard #18? No, nothing that complex...
It's called i18n because there are 18 letters between the i and the n... :-)
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Posted by Ben Langhinrichs At 12:04:11 On 05/11/2003 | - Website - |