On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 07:14:57AM -0400, Winkler, Arnold F wrote: > Tex, > > Here is my recollection: > > Sometime around 1991 in a IEEE P1003.1 (POSIX) meeting, Gary Miller (IBM) > was writing on the blackboard. After having spelled out > Internationalization a few times, he first abbreviated it to I--n and a bit > later (obviously after counting the letters in between) used I18N. Sandra > might have been at the meeting, and Keld - they might be able to confirm my > recollection.
Google is your friend :-) "i18n" is first mentioned in USENET on 30 nov 1989, > > L10N did not show up until quite some time later. I have no idea who used > it first. l10n is first mentioned on 30 august 1990. The posting also mentions that the abbreviation is not widely used. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garabík http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread!
