Monday, April 6, 2009

L10n?

I first saw this terminology in SplendidCRM code, and did not quite understand why they had it with that name, and just learned how to use it. Today, I was watching a Django video, when the guy presented the following item in the slide:

  • i18n / L10n
I got curious about it and googled it, to find that L10n means "Localization" ("L" followed by 10 chars then "n") and i18n stands for "Internationalization" ("i" followed by 18 chars then "n").

Funny way to write long words...

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

3 comments:

Teguh Eko Budiarto said...

wow.we should that more often then.haha.

btw, the link to Django should be started with http, because now it given broken link inside codetrace.blogspot.com

Arnulfo said...

codetrace.blogspot.com should be removed in the link hehe

about the topic, it is interesting how they came up with the concept. there are other words out there which starts with L and ends with n and has a total of 12 characters ryt?

Unknown said...

Done! Fixed the URL in the post, and, replying to your comment Arnulfo, I don't really know when you can use that or not, but it seems this is like an abbreviation for at least those 2 ;)