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

2013-09-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-09-20 14:47, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > > You used an abbreviation for years without looking it up? hehehe.. These days acronyms appear as fast as patent lawsuits. After a while I simply stopped investigating each one. :) Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI t

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

2013-09-20 Thread Mattias Gaertner
On Fri, 20 Sep 2013 13:48:38 +0100 Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > Just for fun... > > I came across something today which I never knew before (though I have > always wondered about it). You used an abbreviation for years without looking it up? You wrote you had a bad internet connection. Is that th

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

2013-09-20 Thread 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 inv