-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On June 24, 2009 02:24:01 pm Charlie Kester wrote: > >On June 23, 2009 04:36:08 pm Charlie Kester wrote: > >> On Tue 23 Jun 2009 at 12:05:55 PDT Thomas Abthorpe wrote: > >> >Localization is a subset Internationalization, so the new category > >> >becomes a catch all for both entities. > >> > >> If i18n is too cryptic or too alphanumeric, and internationalization is > >> too long, why not go with "nls"? > > > >I personally think that nls is equally as cryptic as i18n or l10n. > > But it has the virtue of being purely alphabetic. and thus meets one of > the objections that have been raised. > > I don't put much weight on the "cryptic" argument myself. I expect that > anyone who is doing internationalization work is familiar with all of > these terms -- and if not, they need to *make* themselves familiar with > them.
ack ack, point well taken. Thomas - -- Thomas Abthorpe | FreeBSD Committer tabtho...@freebsd.org | http://people.freebsd.org/~tabthorpe -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkpCdBsACgkQ5Gm/jNBp8qBZDQCdHDTLXYsYKyK4FXo0xL9VRfdT lIAAnRTOr2q4jkUtiMKwRW7q/0ARTrCT =Sy7h -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
